NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC69A0112
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 310N · N4163Q
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
BLAIRSTOWN
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
OBSCURATION
Aircraft history
Serial number
0000310N0063
Total time
156 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Age
40
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
LOOD ALCOHOL LVL .113PCT.
Investigator remarks
PLT LOG BOOK NOT OBTAINABLE.MTN RIDGE OBSCURED.B
Cause factors
- 64/A/33 A PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/04 A PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/53 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/A/A A WEATHER LOW CEILING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/A/B A WEATHER RAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/A/C A WEATHER FOG Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/A/X A WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/J/65 J PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Joint cause
- 88/J/67 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Joint cause
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 2601.
Source file
NTSB_1969_3_2601.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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