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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80DHD08

1979-12-11 TOMS RIVER, 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 152 · N48470

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MILLER AIRPARK

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000283340

Total time

354 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

30

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/71 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Joint cause
  • 88/J/91 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING Joint 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 3534. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3534.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.