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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHA16

1971-09-21 ERWINNA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1205S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH E-90

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

U/A CANADA PT6A-27-28 (680 hp)

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19790118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A056CA

Registrant of record

COUNTY LINE AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1205S Schweizer SGS233 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

SCHWEIZER SGS233 · N1205S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

VAN SANT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 27 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000205

Total time

444 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

522

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NE.RELEASED ABT 100FT AGL.HIT GND RTRNG TO FLD.

Investigator remarks

PLT ALLOWED GLIDER TO GET TOO HIGH ABOVE TOW PLA

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1897. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1897.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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