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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FFA10

1979-01-23 UTICA, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N63888

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 206B-III

Year of manufacture

1989

TCDS

H2SW · BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA LTD

Engine

ALLISON 250-C20 SER (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20020622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85F05

Registrant of record

FLICK TODD

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N63888 Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N63888

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Kind of flying

CN

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0027-7854033

Total time

566 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,746

Age

64

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/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 0788. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0788.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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