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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FNE32

1976-08-16 ELLINGTON, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150 · N6272G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ELLINGTON

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015071772

Total time

3,429 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

57

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

PORPOISED ON LANDING,COLLAPSED NOSE LANDING GEAR

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/62 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 88/3/AW 3
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 2786. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2786.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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