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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73ANO67

1972-11-12 SALISBURY, Maryland, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N80658

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GLOBE GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C125 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551211

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAFB4F

Registrant of record

STALKER ALLEN R SR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N80658 SWIFT GC-1B Fatal

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

SWIFT GC-1B · N80658

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SLSBRY-WYCOMICO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001063

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

18,000

Age

49

Investigator remarks

WITNESS SAW A SWIFT RCVRNG FROM A SPIN 11/11/72

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
88/L/14 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING

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 3530. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3530.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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