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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FFA24

1979-06-23 ALPLAUS, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N143R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-11

Year of manufacture

1947 · 32 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0AF4C

Registrant of record

UPSON THEODORE C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N143R Piper PA-11 None

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-11 · N143R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A2

Operator type

D

Airport

WELLS SEAPLANE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000111520

Total time

2,630 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,591

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& FELL INTO PROP.

Investigator remarks

PAX STANDING ON FLOATING DOCK JUMPED ON R FLOAT

Cause factors

68/A/K9 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1942. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1942.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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