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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74AN057

1973-12-21 ENDICOTT, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 411 · N424RF

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

TRI-CITIES

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

310° / 16 kt

Temp

27° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000411-0058

Total time

2,063 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,828

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KOF SPD.OVERRAN RWY.

Investigator remarks

REDUCED PWR R ENG TO CORRECT SKID.UN TO OBTAIN T

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 80/C/BC C
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Cause
  • 64/B/06 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
  • 64/L/29 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
  • 82/L/D L
    WEATHER SNOW
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
  • 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 3525. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3525.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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