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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHM55

1972-05-24 LINCOLN PARK, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 310H · N1095Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

LINCOLN PARK ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000310H0095

Total time

2,822 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,093

Age

41

Investigator remarks

OTR TRAFFIC.WING,GR,PROP DMG.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/49 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2137. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2137.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.