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NYC73DGT02

1972-08-13 · GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER J4 · N26895
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
GETTYSBURG
Kind of flying
A0

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Wind
080° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000004-943
Total time
1,600 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
635
Age
31

Cause factors

  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 66/A/25 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2964. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2964.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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