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Event IAD72FIG02

1971-07-04 BOWIE, Maryland, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9424F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172R

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19980218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD1780

Registrant of record

OWENS MARK T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9424F Hughes 269B 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

HUGHES 269B · N9424F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C3

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CN

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-0165

Total time

2,194 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,800

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TNS AT GROSS WT,HIT WIRES,CRASHED,RLD OVER.

Investigator remarks

PLT ATMPTD TKOF FROM CONFINED AREA W HIGH OBSTRC

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
64/C/81 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause
64/C/18 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ROTOR R.P.M. Cause
83/L/I L
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0722. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0722.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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