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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHJ04

1971-08-18 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8087M Cessna 310I 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

CESSNA 310I · N8087M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MATTITUCK

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310I-0087

Total time

2,317 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

260

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INE-2200FT RWY. WND VLCTY 9K.

Investigator remarks

ACFT T/D APRX HALFWAY DWN,SLIGHTLY R OF CENTER L

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 2776. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2776.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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