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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNA17

1979-06-07 BOXBORO, Massachusetts, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N33MH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T303

Year of manufacture

1982

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19820211

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A39491

Registrant of record

AKEYSON EDWARD W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N33MH STARDUSTER SA-300 Minor

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

STARDUSTER SA-300 · N33MH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MINUTEMAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000409

Total time

327 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

420

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

P LARVAE.

Investigator remarks

INVERTED FUEL VENT TUBE PLUGGED WITH MUD AND WAS

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1667. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1667.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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