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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FNE26

1977-06-24 EAST HADDAM, Connecticut, United States Serious 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

BEECH C23 · N1921L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GOODSPEED

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1820

Total time

330 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

187

Age

36

Investigator remarks

LNDD HARD,SEPTD NOSE GR,PROP HIT RWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
  • 64/B/33 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
  • 88/C/22 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Cause
  • 88/B/94 B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE

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 1626. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1626.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.