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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76IN035

1975-07-23 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

BEECH 99 · N1033S

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

PHILIADELPHIA INT

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

010° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000U-64

Total time

12,014 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,080

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT GR HANDLE WHICH MOVED TO UP PSN.

Investigator remarks

PLT REACHED DWN TO TURN OFF PITOT HEAT SWITCHES

Cause factors

  • 64/A/13 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR 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 5 0030. Source file NTSB_1975_5_0030.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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