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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHD40

1972-05-28 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5148T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1967 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670119

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A673CD

Registrant of record

KLOSS MATTHEW JOSEPH

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5148T Champion 7ECA Minor

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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N5148T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000567

Total time

563 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

137

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1887. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1887.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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