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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FHA44

1971-05-11 BLAIRSTOWN, New Jersey, 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

CESSNA 172 · N46475

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BLAIRSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017257293

Total time

960 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

68

Age

44

Investigator remarks

ELEV TRIM FOUND FULL NOSE DWN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/56 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INCORRECT TRIM SETTING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/A A
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/91 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING 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 0381. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0381.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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