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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FHJ33

1976-09-23 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N33165 Piper PA-28 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PIPER PA-28 · N33165

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MATTITUCK AIRBASE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7525166

Total time

1,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

800

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT FENCE OBSCURED BY SHRUBBERY.

Investigator remarks

TAXIING BACK ON R SIDE OF RWY,OTR ACFT ON FINAL.

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/A/BJ A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3693. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3693.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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