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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70DFJ15

1970-04-07 ELMIRA, New York, United States None 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

CESSNA 150 · N57246

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015071224

Total time

74 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

27

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RSE.

Investigator remarks

ACCIDENT OCCURRED APRX 60 MILES S OF PLANNED COU

Cause factors

  • 64/A/03 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/C1 A
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT 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 1200. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1200.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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