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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71DHD09

1970-07-24 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States Minor 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 205 · N1883Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

070° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

2050083

Total time

1,193 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,520

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENCTRD FOG BANK.ACFT HIT WATER DRG 180 DEG TURN.

Investigator remarks

OVR OCEAN,OBSVD LOW CLOUDS ATMTD DSCNT BLO CLDS

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/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/A A
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/C A
    WEATHER FOG Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1237. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1237.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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