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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FHJ18

1973-12-17 WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States None 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

LEAR JET 25 · N900P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

WESTCHESTER CO

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Temp

17° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000025-049

Total time

2,455 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

20,738

Age

56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF RUNWAY FOR RUNWAY PROPER.

Investigator remarks

RUNWAY SNOW COVERED UNLIGHTED.PILOT MISTOOK SIDE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/13 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/A3 J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES RUNWAY LIGHTING Joint cause
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause

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 3558. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3558.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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