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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DFA29

1973-03-31 MARCY, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9712X Cessna 210B 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

CESSNA 210B · N9712X

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

RIVERSIDE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,050

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EXTD.GR REPAIRED,PLT RETRACTED GR AFTR TKOF.

Investigator remarks

PREV GR DOOR PROBLEM ACFT HAD BEEN FLOWN WITH GR

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause

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 5 0010. Source file NTSB_1973_5_0010.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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