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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FGM23

1975-02-13 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7451G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Year of manufacture

1973 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730604

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA079F

Registrant of record

PRESTO WILLIAM R

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 · N7451G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0250445-A-48

Total time

471 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

82

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R AILERON BELLCRANK ASSEMBLY.PLT ABLE TO CTL ACFT.

Investigator remarks

R AILERON PUSH-PULL ROD P/N 0523218-2 FAILED AT

Cause factors

  • 75/A/CA A
    SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/BM A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED 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 0242. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0242.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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