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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD08

1971-08-22 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N44745 NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 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

NAVAL FCTY N3N-3 · N44745

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Y

Airport

BADER

Kind of flying

CF

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002851

Total time

5,688 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,100

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ER,MAINTAIN ALT.CRASH LNDD IN MARSHY AREA.

Investigator remarks

ENG MISFIRING AFTR BANNER PICKUP.UN RELEASE BANN

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3208. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3208.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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