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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC82FHJ03

1981-11-05 EAST MORICHES, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N755RY Piper PA-30 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-30 · N755RY

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

D

Airport

SPADARO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 9 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000615

Total time

2,246 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

6,200

Age

66

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERUPTED IN CABIN AREA WHILE PLT INSPD EXTERIOR.

Investigator remarks

SMELLED SMK IN FLT,DIVERTED TO NEAREST ARPT.FIRE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/J/E J
MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT Joint cause
88/J/50 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN CABIN,COCKPIT,BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT Joint cause
88/J/AC J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN Joint cause

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 3520. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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