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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FA034

1979-04-03 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6211J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C90GTI

Year of manufacture

2009

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-135A (750 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20090421

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A81C78

Registrant of record

RK TN INVESTMENTS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6211J Piper PA-34 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

PIPER PA-34 · N6211J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

E

Airport

PHILADELPHIA INTL

Kind of flying

CM

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0034-7670269

Total time

2,462 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,680

Age

28

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/A J
WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint 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 0888. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0888.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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