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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FNC34

1972-04-21 ROCHESTER, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8243T Cessna 175B 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

CESSNA 175B · N8243T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Business

Airport

SKYHAVEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017556943

Total time

2,177 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

80

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ACKED OFF.AFT PLT ADVANCED THROTTLE,WAS UN RETARD.

Investigator remarks

HIT N6471L,SUB DMG.NUT INSIDE THE PLASTIC KNOB B

Cause factors

74/A/I0 A
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BM A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED 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 1547. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1547.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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