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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73FKM16

1972-10-07 INDIAN TRAIL, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N16005

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DOUGLAS DC3C-S1C3G

Year of manufacture

1942 · 30 years old at event

Engine

P & W R-1830 SERIES (1350 hp)

Seats / Engines

32 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19920731

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F424

Registrant of record

N1944M LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N16005 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 · N16005

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GOOSE CREEK

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073404

Total time

71 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

21

Age

38

Investigator remarks

LND HALFWAY DOWN RWY AND BOUNCED.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
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 3 0811. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0811.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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