Skip to content

Atlas / NTSB / NYC72AN129

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72AN129

1972-04-16 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N132MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20S

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A083B3

Registrant of record

BARRY CASEY B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

MITSUBISHI MU-2G · N132MA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Airport

BADER

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

110° / 11 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000503

Total time

1,110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

8,000

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PACITATING ONE OR BOTH PLTS. FOG BANK ALONG SHORE.

Investigator remarks

EVIDENCE THAT GEESE HIT WINDSHIELD POSSIBLY INCA

Cause factors

  • 84/C/0 C
    MISCELLANEOUS BIRD COLLISION Cause
  • 88/K/88 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
  • 82/L/C L
    WEATHER FOG

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 0669. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0669.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.