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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DKM09

1971-10-17 INDIAN TRAIL, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6801G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19710316

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A905B9

Registrant of record

DELTA RIDGE FARMS LLC

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 · N6801G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

GOOSE CREEK

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072301

Total time

242 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

17

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CTL,LDG GR HIT FENCE.

Investigator remarks

ACFT BOUNCED ON LDG,PLT ATMTD GOARND,LOST DRCTNL

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/62 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
  • 64/B/79 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL

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 3442. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3442.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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