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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC73DFJ27

1973-06-13 CANANDAIGUA, New York, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4050U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

POWRACHUTE PC 2000

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

ROTAX 582DCDI (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070807

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4C19F

Registrant of record

BURTON MARK P

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 · N4050U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

CANANDAIGUA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015061450

Total time

2,749 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

841

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTO WIND.LIFTED L WING TO CLR POLE WHEEL HIT DIRT.

Investigator remarks

AT MOMENT OF LIFT OFF PLT ALLOWED ACFT TO TURN I

Cause factors

  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/13 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint 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 1457. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1457.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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