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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DNC38

1972-11-21 STONINGTON, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5933Y Piper PA-23 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-23 · N5933Y

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

STONINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000023-3097

Total time

1,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,028

Age

51

Investigator remarks

BKN NOSE WHEEL FORK,2 BENT PROP TIPS.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 5 0006. Source file NTSB_1972_5_0006.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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