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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FGM39

1972-04-08 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N23210 Cessna 150H 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 150H · N23210

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 20 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-68794

Total time

809 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

7,198

Age

52

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 25K. NO ENG MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0737. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0737.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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