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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DNC18

1971-12-12 PLYMOUTH, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8683G Cessna 150F 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

CESSNA 150F · N8683G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

PLYMOUTH

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015062783

Total time

1,232 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

21

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/C/BB C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY Cause
80/K/BD K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint factor

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 3588. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3588.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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