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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD12

1971-09-07 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States Serious 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

BEECH A23 · N1416L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BADER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

160° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M-808

Total time

648 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

162

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIT TOP OF JITNEY BUS.

Investigator remarks

L WING HIT TREE ABT 12FT AGL,ACFT THEN SPUN AND

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 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 1927. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1927.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.