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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD71DLJ16

1971-03-06 DURHAM, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7204E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 58P

Year of manufacture

1984

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19840531

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A675

Registrant of record

OVERIT AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7204E Cessna 182B 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

CESSNA 182B · N7204E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DURHAM SKYPARK

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000052204

Total time

1,683 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

16

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED 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 1156. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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