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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71FHJ26

1971-05-07 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N100CA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182Q

Year of manufacture

1978

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19981224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A004E7

Registrant of record

FASS FLYERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N100CA Cessna 310D 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

CESSNA 310D · N100CA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MATTITUCK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000039063

Total time

2,230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,861

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING 2 LDGS PRIOR TO THIS FLT.

Investigator remarks

HIT GND APRX 40FT SHORT OF RWY.30MIN DUAL INCLUD

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1536. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1536.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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