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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71DFA59

1971-05-23 UTICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7535A Champion 7GCA None

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

CHAMPION 7GCA · N7535A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NORTH GAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000214-70

Total time

63 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,484

Age

34

Investigator remarks

HIT WOODCHUCK HOLE HIDDEN BY GRASS.PVT STRIP.

Cause factors

80/A/BJ A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD 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 1680. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1680.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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