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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DKM26

1972-03-21 MARION, North Carolina, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2534 JEANIES TEENIE Serious

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

JEANIES TEENIE · N2534

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SHIFLET

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

170° / 6 kt

Temp

63° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000004901885

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

65

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FICIENT RWY TO LND ON.HAD MOVED SEAT TOO FAR AFT.

Investigator remarks

TESTING ACFT OVER RWY.BECAME AIRBORNE WITH INSUF

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/76 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G. Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 0393. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0393.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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