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IAD74FIG27

1974-05-18 · ROCKS STATE PK, Maryland, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERONCA 65-C · N24277
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000C-7419
Total time
4,015 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
507
Age
28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N ACFT STRUCK TREES.

Investigator remarks

AT LOW ALT LOOKING DWN AND OUT L SIDE WINDOW WHE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1520. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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