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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DNC68

1973-04-07 NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3241F Mooney M20E 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

MOONEY M20E · N3241F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WHITE MOUTAIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 15 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000670034

Total time

992 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

975

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LAND ON REMAING RWY.HIT SNOW PLOW PARKED ON OVRUN

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 50K.AFT TD ACFT LIFTED,PLT ELECTED

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
68/B/H9 B
PERSONNEL OTHER
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0741. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0741.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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