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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FHA30

1980-08-26 ERWINNA, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N65565

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 37 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700803

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8A295

Registrant of record

AEROSPACE TRUST MANAGEMENT LLC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N65565 Boeing B75N1 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

BOEING B75N1 · N65565

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

VAN SANT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

94° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7463

Total time

4,982 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,751

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/K/G K
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING 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 2028. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2028.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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