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NYC62A0127

1962-11-23 · ELLICOTT CITY, Maryland, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
VICKERS 745D · N7430
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000128
Total time
18,809 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
16,230
Age
39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COLLISION WITH WHISTLING SWAN.

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF CTL AFTER SEPARATION OF L HORIZ STAB DUE

Cause factors

  • 84/C/0 C
    MISCELLANEOUS BIRD COLLISION Cause
  • 70/B/D3 B
    AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS
  • 88/B/94 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
  • 88/K/49 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint factor

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 1 0034. Source file NTSB_1962_1_0034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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