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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72AM142

1972-06-24 PONCE, Puerto Rico, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

DEHAVILLAND DH114 · N554PR

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

E

Airport

MERCEDITA

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000014085

Total time

11,364 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,297

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROL. REASON FOR GO-AROUND UNK.

Investigator remarks

OVERROTATED AT TOO LOW A/S, LOST DIRECTIONAL CON

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0017. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.