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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74FNE10

1973-11-02 SIMSBURY, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4220N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 140

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19561023

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A50572

Registrant of record

ONEILL MARK B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 140 · N4220N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SIMSBURY-TRI-TOWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

274° / 12 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000013691

Total time

1,846 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

114

Age

27

Investigator remarks

DRG LVL OFF,ACFT DRIFTED L.T/D ON L GR.HARD LDG.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 3285. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3285.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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