NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC66D0400
Registry · N3135V
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BULLER JAMES P TA-3
Year of manufacture
1991
Engine
AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19911203
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A35511
Registrant of record
LEICHTY LAVERN D
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
BEECHCRAFT 35 · N3135V
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
D
Airport
SKY PATROL
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
360° / 40 kt
Temp
30° F
Aircraft history
Total time
1,135 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
550
Age
35
Investigator remarks
CROSSWIND GUSTING TO 40 KNOTS
Cause factors
- 82/A/H A WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/33 A PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 3627.
Source file
NTSB_1965_3_3627.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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