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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FNA13

1975-08-22 NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4519T Piper PA-34 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-34 · N4519T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PLUM ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7250122

Total time

920 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,465

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARK PLUGS,PART DETERIORATED AIR INTAKE HOSE.

Investigator remarks

L ENG CKD OK,R ENG STICKY INTAKE VALVE,FOULED SP

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
88/L/48 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES

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 4112. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4112.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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