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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FNE28

1972-02-28 BLOOMFIELD, Connecticut, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2337X Cessna 182H Serious

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 182H · N2337X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

120° / 4 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018256237

Total time

1,705 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

138

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT FUEL APRX 100GALS,HOBBS METER RECORDED 4.2HRS.

Investigator remarks

CAUSE OF FUEL EXHAUSTION NOT DETERMINED.TOTAL AC

Cause factors

88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING

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 1668. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1668.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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