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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FHA10

1974-08-04 BEDMINSTER, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8510M Beech A55 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

BEECH A55 · N8510M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SOMERSET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

190° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC-452

Total time

3,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,300

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENCE CAUSED GR TO COLLAPSE..

Investigator remarks

TSTM JUST PASSED THE ARPT.WIND GUSTING 25K.HIT F

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/82 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
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 3708. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3708.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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