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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77DNC44

1977-08-06 BINGHAM, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1871M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 337G

Year of manufacture

1973 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19730213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A15D34

Registrant of record

HICKAM JAMES R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1871M Cessna 337 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

CESSNA 337 · N1871M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GAD-ABOUT-GADDIS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000033701471

Total time

2,456 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,300

Age

36

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3172. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3172.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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