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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73AN026

1972-08-14 WELLSBURG, West 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

AERO COMDR 690 · N1NR

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 6 kt

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000011024

Total time

65 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,507

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

. UN RECOVER BFOR IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

LOSS OF CTL IN STALL MANEUVER FOR UNKNOWN REASON

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0676. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0676.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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