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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DNA32

1972-02-05 NEWPORT, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4314G MCCULLOUGH J-2 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

MCCULLOUGH J-2 · N4314G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NEWPORT STATE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

315° / 20 kt

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000024

Total time

140 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,746

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OK.

Investigator remarks

RWY 34 USED. WINDS REPORTED 315 DEG GUSTING TO 3

Cause factors

66/C/23 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0294. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0294.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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