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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FA095

1977-09-05 OVAL, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N36128 Taylorcraft BC1265 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC1265 · N36128

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003095

Total time

2,374 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

180

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T OFF THE FUEL.AD51-9-3 REQUIRED DEVICE NOT FOUND.

Investigator remarks

WHEN PLT SELECTED CARB HEAT HE INADVERTANTLY SHU

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/23 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS
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 3187. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3187.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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