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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FGM04

1976-12-10 SMITHFIELD, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7AG

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD PC-24

Year of manufacture

2021

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-4A-QPM

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20210803

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94FE3

Registrant of record

SHOTTENKIRK FL HOLDINGS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

PIPER PA-24 · N7AG

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000027431

Total time

2,748 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

423

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MENT.

Investigator remarks

NO FUEL IN EITHER TANK.ACFT ROLLED DWN AN EMBANK

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 83/B/F B
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 3964. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3964.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.