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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FGM08

1977-11-17 QUEEN, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3837C AERO COMDR 560E 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

AERO COMDR 560E · N3837C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

230° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000736

Total time

3,856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,758

Age

52

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
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING

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 4027. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4027.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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