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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DHM01

1971-07-19 MONTICELLO, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22614

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HARRIS C MARK ROTORWAY EXEC 90

Engine

ROTORWAY RW-100 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950413

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1F9E3

Registrant of record

HARRIS C MARK

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

CESSNA 150 · N22614

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015068404

Total time

1,393 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

594

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NDD ON WET DNSLOPE,HIT FENCE BARRIER.BATT FND DRY.

Investigator remarks

PLT NOTED AMMETER DISCHRG,LOST COMM,DSCNDD VFR,L

Cause factors

  • 83/A/Y A
    TERRAIN OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/A A
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 75/A/AC A
    SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 75/A/AA A
    SYSTEMS BATTERIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/33 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL FAILURE 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 2609. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2609.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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