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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FNA04

1979-11-04 MARLBORO, Massachusetts, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5639J Cessna 182P Minor

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 182P · N5639J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

MARLBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001826477

Total time

463 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

256

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NKS APRX 1/2 FULL.STRUCK DIRT BANK IN PARKING LOT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT NOT FLOWN SINCE 7/13/79.PARKED WITH FUEL TA

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 3556. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3556.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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