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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FFA25

1973-02-02 UTICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9818L Cessna 320B 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 320B · N9818L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000320B0018

Total time

4,409 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,603

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NT GND HANDLED BY PWR EQUIP,CONTRARY TO MFG REC.

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR MAIN DRIVE TUBE P/N0842120-1 BKN.ACFT CO

Cause factors

68/A/D8 A
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CA A
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0055. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0055.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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