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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DKM31

1972-04-02 TERRELL, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1811T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLASFLUGEL H 301 B LIBELLE

Year of manufacture

1969 · 3 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A146F0

Registrant of record

WAHL JOHN F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1811T Glasflugel H301B None

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

GLASFLUGEL H301B · N1811T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

315° / 15 kt

Temp

51° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000107

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,886

Age

50

Investigator remarks

ACFT LNDD IN HILLY BRUSH.FUSELAGE BROKE IN HALF.

Cause factors

82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/D J
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause

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 1019. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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