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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD17

1971-10-14 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7040N Beech V35A 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

BEECH V35A · N7040N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BADER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D8632

Total time

1,112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,066

Age

47

Investigator remarks

PLT CRCD ARPT TILL VIS IMPROVED,LNDD LONG.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG
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 4083. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4083.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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