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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70F0199

1969-10-12 JEANNETTE, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 A150K · N8347M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOUQUET

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 4 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000A150-0047

Total time

45 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,700

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.LNDD SHORT OF RWY,STRUCK ROCKS,NOSE GR COLLAPSED.

Investigator remarks

SERIES OF 2 LOOPS,ENG STOPPED TOP OF SECOND LOOP

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/34 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
  • 64/B/48 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
  • 64/B/80 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
  • 88/B/AQ B
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
  • 83/B/F B
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2803. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2803.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.