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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FNA40

1974-04-20 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N55283 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N55283

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

NORWOOD MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

100° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7325357

Total time

470 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

18

Age

16

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DIVERTED ATTN TO ACFT ON RWY.

Investigator remarks

ABORTED LANDING AT LOW ALTITUDE STRUCK TREE.PLT

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/08 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 0928. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0928.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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