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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FNA42

1976-07-09 GREENE, Rhode Island, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2277P Piper PA-23 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-23 · N2277P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000023-888

Total time

2,883 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,502

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F R ENG FOUND DISCONNECTED.GR FIXED DWN PSN.

Investigator remarks

R ENG SPARK PLUGS LOOSE,ALL LWR IGNITION LEADS O

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/BC C
POWERPLANT SPARK PLUG Cause
88/C/AU C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNDER TORQUED Cause
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 1682. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1682.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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