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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70D0060

1969-04-04 ROCHESTER, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7157X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150A

Year of manufacture

1961 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610531

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A99203

Registrant of record

CORRIVEAU FLORIAN J

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

CESSNA 150 · N7157X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

SKYHAVEN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015059257

Total time

3,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

67

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T/D.

Investigator remarks

WIND REPORTED TO HAVE SHIFTED 180 DEG AT TIME OF

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
  • 82/C/J C
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Cause
  • 88/L/AQ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2615. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2615.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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