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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FNA13

1977-03-13 BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N42264

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CGS AVIATION HAWK ARROW II

Engine

HKS 700E (60 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20081021

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A50654

Registrant of record

BENTON KEITH D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 182 · N42264

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LOGAN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

135° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,975 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,806

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

K.ACFT BATTRY DEAD,PLT JUMP START,BATTRY,DPTD IFR.

Investigator remarks

ALTERNATOR NEGATIVE BRUSH WORN OFF.LNDD DNWND 15

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 64/C/80 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 75/L/AC L
    SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 82/L/A L
    WEATHER LOW CEILING

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 1452. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1452.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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