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Event NYC73DFA08

1972-08-05 COOPERSTOWN, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9072P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC RAVEN S49A

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930322

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC8BD9

Registrant of record

KEOWN OWEN B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9072P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N9072P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

COOPERSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-4541

Total time

1,650 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,200

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NKMENT.

Investigator remarks

IMPROPER SHORT FLD TECHNIQUE. ACFT RAN DOWN EMBA

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/L/20 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0802. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0802.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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