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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FIA10

1971-12-20 LEXINGTON PARK, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5773V Beech A23-24 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

BEECH A23-24 · N5773V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PARK HALL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

44° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MA-27

Total time

681 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,485

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FRM OTR DIR DUE LO CLG.RWY WET,UN STOP,HIT FENCE.

Investigator remarks

WIND CALM,1ST T/D LONG,WENT ARND,RVRSD CRS LNDD

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN

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 4388. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4388.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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