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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71AN094

1971-03-20 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6987P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N6987P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BADER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2130

Total time

1,568 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

THRU OVRN DWN EMBANKMENT.NOSE GR HIT CEMENT BLOCK.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 23K.T/D ABT 500FT BFR RWY END,CONT

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 0083. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0083.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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