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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC22DNA36

1972-02-23 MARLBORO, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22849

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHMUNK-MARTIN HATZ SPECIAL

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800611

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A201BF

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 150 · N22849

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MARLBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015068562

Total time

1,846 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SAID PX INADVERTENTLY PUSHED L RUDDER PEDAL.

Investigator remarks

RWY CLEARED 50FT WIDE,HI SNOWBANKS EACH SIDE.PLT

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 68/L/K4 L
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER
  • 88/L/77 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS
  • 80/K/BY K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint factor

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 1304. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1304.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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