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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70FGM08

1970-02-01 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5274D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180A

Year of manufacture

1958 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6A5D7

Registrant of record

SIMONSEN DEANNE M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5274D Cessna 180A None

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 180A · N5274D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050172

Total time

1,127 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

151

Age

48

Investigator remarks

WIND VBL 190 TO 210 DEG 12K GUSTING TO 25K.

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause

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 0922. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0922.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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