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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FLJ25

1972-02-16 LOUISBURG, 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 150 · N4051J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

FRANKLIN

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-65351

Total time

2,377 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

67

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT FLD OFF L SIDE OF RWY.NO DUAL FOR NEARLY 90DAYS

Investigator remarks

RWY R SIDE ROUGH,ERODED. ACFT WENT INTO SOFT WHE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 80/L/BK L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE
  • 80/L/BF L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS
  • 68/L/C1 L
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE TRAINING OF STUDENT
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1063. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1063.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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