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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71DHA30

1971-01-17 EASTON, Pennsylvania, 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

PIPER PA-28 · N95414

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EASTON

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-25933

Total time

764 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

30

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0536. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0536.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.