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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73AN113

1973-02-21 MARION, North Carolina, 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

BEECH E35 · N3207C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D3865

Total time

456 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

685

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E R SEAT.

Investigator remarks

MDT OR GTR TURBC FCSTD BLO 12000FT.THROWOVER YOK

Cause factors

  • 82/A/L A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 65/J/31 J
    COPILOT Joint cause
  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 0138. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0138.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.