NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC72FNA06
Registry · N7506N
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
SCHWEIZER 269C
Year of manufacture
1988
TCDS
4H12 · SCHWEIZER RSG LLC
Engine
LYCOMING HIO-360 SER (205 hp)
Seats / Engines
3 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19880302
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S AA1D40
Registrant of record
MESHOPPEN AIR LLC
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
BEECH E33 · N7506N
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — level (EA)
Operator type
Business
Airport
BLOCK ISLAND
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
200° / 9 kt
Aircraft history
Serial number
00000CD-1185
Total time
759 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
2,145
Age
57
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
RETURN TO ARPT,PLT DSCNDD.ACFT HIT TREES DRG TURN
Investigator remarks
FLT APRX 50FT AGL ENCTRD FOG BANK.DRG ATMPT MVFR
Cause factors
- 64/A/40 A PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/52 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/C J WEATHER FOG Joint cause
- 83/J/F J TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
- 83/J/I J TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
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 2521.
Source file
NTSB_1971_3_2521.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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