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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DHA09

1972-10-01 BLAIRSTOWN, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101R

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

19560520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A009E2

Registrant of record

KETTUNEN ALAN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101R SWIFT GC-1B 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

SWIFT GC-1B · N101R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

BLAIRSTOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 14 kt

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002125

Total time

3,258 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

372

Age

43

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3 2708. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2708.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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