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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC74IN026

1973-09-18 BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7HA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE GVI (G650ER)

Year of manufacture

2015

TCDS

T00015AT · GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORP

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC BR 700 SERIES

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20200708

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9508C

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

LEAR 24 · N7HA

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

E

Airport

LOGAN INTL

Kind of flying

CL

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

140° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,954 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HIELD WIPERS.HEAVY RAIN.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK TAXI WAY SIGN.A/C NOT EQUIPPED WITH WINDS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 5 0021. Source file NTSB_1973_5_0021.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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