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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FNA28

1976-01-31 NORFOLK, Massachusetts, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1NS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Year of manufacture

1973 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0013F

Registrant of record

EAGLE EQUITY INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1NS Piper PA-28 Serious

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 · N1NS

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORFOLK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-20098

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

450

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AYING IN FLT PATH AREA.

Investigator remarks

PLT ELECTED TO TURN BACK TO ARPT DUE CHILDREN PL

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0441. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0441.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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