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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHJ05

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

Aircraft involved

N1698G Champion 7ECA 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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N1698G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SPADAROS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 10 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000606

Total time

370 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

450

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

O.

Investigator remarks

MISREAD WIND SOCK. DIDNT CALL UNICOM FOR LDG INF

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
80/K/BF K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS 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 3137. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3137.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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