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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA78AA017

1978-07-09 ROCHESTER, New York, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1550

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN AIRCRAFT B1

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0DF1A

Registrant of record

GIFFORD SCOTT A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BRITISH AC 1-11 · N1550

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

MONROE COUNTY

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

240° / 6 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000044

Total time

33,693 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

13,461

Age

46

Investigator remarks

REQUIRED CALLOUTS NOT MADE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 65/L/20 L
    COPILOT
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1 0010. Source file NTSB_1978_1_0010.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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