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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72IN136

1972-04-26 FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, United States Minor 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

BOEING 720B · N736US

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,618

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-LACK OF VISUAL SCANNING VIGILANCE,BOTH CREWS

Investigator remarks

MINOR INJ,2 STEWS,AVOIDING N737Z IN VFR CONDS.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/7 A
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION 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 4 0002. Source file NTSB_1972_4_0002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.