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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77DHD10

1977-03-01 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4493F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-151

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760820

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A56ED3

Registrant of record

MOCK JOSEPH R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4493F Piper PA-28 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 PA-28 · N4493F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BADER FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7715041

Total time

84 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

334

Age

44

Investigator remarks

LEFT LNDG GEAR HIT EMBANKMENT SHORT OF RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0702. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0702.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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