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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76DFA20

1975-12-06 CAMBRIDGE, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N98572

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J-3

Year of manufacture

1946 · 29 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780503

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADC11F

Registrant of record

CLEVELAND BRIAN G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N98572 Piper J-3 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 J-3 · N98572

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

OPEN FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

48° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018791

Total time

3,317 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

285

Age

36

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 4078. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4078.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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