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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD27

1972-01-24 VINELAND, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2957T AERO COMDR 200-D 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

AERO COMDR 200-D · N2957T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

RUDYS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

320° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000330

Total time

791 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,550

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PLT UNABLE TO AVOID PWR LINES. NO ENG MALFUNCTIO

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 0292. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0292.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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