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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72DGM48

1972-05-29 DERRY, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N513W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2007

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070914

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66E88

Registrant of record

CAYUGA AVIATION LLC

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

PITTS SPCL S-1 · N513W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 12 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000023

Total time

139 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,334

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DE SNAP ROLL.UNABLE TO RECOVER.PLT BAILED OUT.

Investigator remarks

ENTERED INVERTED FLAT SPIN FROM ATTEMPT AT OUTSI

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE 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 0459. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0459.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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