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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73AN020

1972-07-30 WINDSOR, Virginia, United States Fatal 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

CHAMPION 7KCAB · N7564F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000228-70

Total time

325 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EN PLT SPUN FROM HAMMERHEAD.HIT TREES ON RECOVERY.

Investigator remarks

OBS SAW PLT PERFORM 2 LOW ALT ROLLS AND LOOPS.TH

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 1091. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1091.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.