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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73ANA39

1973-02-18 STOW, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7619R Beech B23 None

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 B23 · N7619R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MINUTE MAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1242

Total time

859 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

87

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED.DID NOT RETARD THROTTLE.

Investigator remarks

DRG ATMPT TO SLOW ACFT,FLAPS RAISED,BRAKES APPLI

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
80/K/BB K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY Joint factor
80/K/BD K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint factor

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 0078. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0078.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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