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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FGM30

1972-01-26 MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8716S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150F

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650923

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABFD48

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

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 · N8716S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

MONROEVILLE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000150-62016

Total time

2,401 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

36

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED ACFT ONTO GND.NS GR HIT EDGE OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

STDNT PLT OVRCORRECTED DURG FLARE,LOST CTL,STALL

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 0384. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0384.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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