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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FA064

1981-06-24 ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N231AN

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EMBRAER S A ERJ 170-200 LR

Year of manufacture

2016

Engine

GE CF34-8E5

Seats / Engines

88 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20160506

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20C44

Registrant of record

AMERICAN AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N231AN Mooney M20K None

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

MOONEY M20K · N231AN

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

BADER

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

190° / 16 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-0096

Total time

445 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,600

Age

37

Investigator remarks

MUSHED INTO WTR NR DEP END OF RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 1303. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1303.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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