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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74DHA07

1973-08-24 ERWINNA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1241S Schweizer SGS233 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

SCHWEIZER SGS233 · N1241S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

VAN SANT

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

110° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000223

Total time

705 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

188

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HAD .3 SOLO IN TYPE. SECOND SOLO FLT.

Investigator remarks

VEERED INTO PARKED SGS233,N1174S,SUBSTL DMG. PLT

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 2315. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2315.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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