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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0408

1969-04-26 MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3128X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-135

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19830811

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A351C5

Registrant of record

WEISS ELLIOT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3128X Cessna 150F Serious

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 150F · N3128X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MONROEVILLE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,494 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

10

Age

20

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 0812. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0812.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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