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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD02

1971-07-10 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 172 · N8243B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BADER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000036043

Total time

3,529 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

340

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RASS OVRRUN DWN 5FT EMBANKMENT INTO WATER.

Investigator remarks

LNDD LONG ATMTD TURN,SKIDDED SIDEWAYS OVR 15FT G

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/80 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
  • 88/L/88 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 2405. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2405.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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