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Event NYC77FA002

1976-10-14 FRANKFORT, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2056C Beech B95A Fatal

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 B95A · N2056C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

FRANKFORT

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

280° / 10 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000T0-244

Total time

3,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,398

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ULD NOT RETURN TO FULL RPM.OTR ACFT ENCTRD ICE.

Investigator remarks

PWR REDUCED TO DSCND,WHEN PWR REAPPLIED L ENG WO

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
88/B/74 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
82/L/F L
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC.

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 4033. Source file NTSB_1976_3_4033.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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