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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FA063

1979-07-21 PAVILION, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2748B AERO COMDR 560A 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

AERO COMDR 560A · N2748B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BATEMAN

Kind of flying

DH

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000248

Total time

6,237 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,405

Age

49

Investigator remarks

EXHAUST VALVE,NR 2 CYLINDER,RT ENGINE FAILED.

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 2167. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2167.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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