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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FHJ15

1970-10-04 EAST MORICHES, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1149V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HOWARD AIRCRAFT DGA-15P

Year of manufacture

1943 · 27 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560713

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03EB6

Registrant of record

WALKER CHARLES T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1149V Howard DGA15P 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

HOWARD DGA15P · N1149V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FROGS FIELD

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000924

Total time

1,060 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

A (A)

Total hours

29

Age

43

Investigator remarks

STDNT CERT NOT ENDORSED FOR SOLO FLT.

Cause factors

64/C/02 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL Cause
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 3903. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3903.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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