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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FHM22

1973-03-01 LINCOLN PARK, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N18562 Cessna 150L 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 150L · N18562

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LINCOLN PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073943

Total time

289 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

87

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IDE,STARTED HIGH SINK RATE,STRUCK CAR.

Investigator remarks

PILOT DIVERTED ATTENTION TO CAR ON ROAD,EXTDD GL

Cause factors

64/C/08 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0461. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0461.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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