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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN048

1971-10-08 ZELIENOPLE, Pennsylvania, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9472V Mooney M21 Fatal

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

MOONEY M21 · N9472V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

TASA FIELD

Kind of flying

CT

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000070042-9

Total time

262 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,375

Age

48

Investigator remarks

DENSE FOG.CRASHED ABT 2200FT NNW OF ARPT.

Cause factors

64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/C A
WEATHER FOG Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1819. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1819.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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