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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FLJ24

1972-02-04 APEX, North Carolina, 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 210G · N5891F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

LUTHER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021058891

Total time

1,015 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,500

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KED PAX PLT FOR ASSIST.R ELEV COUNTER.WGT HIT GND.

Investigator remarks

PIC FAILED TO NOTE R RUDDER PEDALS NOT EXTNDD,AS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 2939. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2939.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.