Event NYC62A0127

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

Aircraft involved

N7430 Vickers 745D Fatal

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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