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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FNC38

1977-06-20 NASHUA, New Hampshire, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101PJ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO VODOCHODY L39C

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

IVCHENKO AI-25TL

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970114

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A009B9

Registrant of record

AERIAL ANGELS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101PJ Pitts S1C 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

PITTS S1C · N101PJ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BOIRE'FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000544H

Total time

30 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,000

Age

47

Investigator remarks

FUEL PUMP FLOW BLOCKED WITH PIECE OF RUBBER.

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause

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 2302. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2302.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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