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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FHA33

1978-09-01 PRINCETON, New Jersey, 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 210T · N761YL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PRINCETON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000021060428

Total time

837 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,993

Age

53

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause

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 2582. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2582.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.