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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71DHD42

1971-03-12 TOMS RIVER, New Jersey, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3258A Cessna 170B Minor

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 170B · N3258A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ROBERT MILLER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025902

Total time

1,898 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

646

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CFT WAS BLOWN OFF RWY,HIT GROUND ON L WINGTIP.

Investigator remarks

WIND VARIABLE 270-330 DEG 5-12K,RWY 24 ACTIVE. A

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0831. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0831.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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