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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FA082

1977-08-17 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N75FA Beech G18S 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

BEECH G18S · N75FA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

GREAT PITTSBURGH

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

280° / 7 kt

Temp

71° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-498

Total time

7,440 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,439

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG WHILE RETURNING TO AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

RIGHT ENG NOT FEATHERED.TURNED ACFT TOWARD DEAD

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
64/B/20 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
64/B/21 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
64/L/01 L
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT

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 3318. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3318.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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