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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FGM36

1975-05-10 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2749Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGU 2-22E

Year of manufacture

1964 · 11 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640605

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2B903

Registrant of record

2019 GLIDER LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2749Z Schweizer SGU222 Serious

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 SGU222 · N2749Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000197

Total time

837 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,836

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T OF RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

GLIDER ENTERED DOWNDRAFT,STRUCK BUSHES 60FT.SHOR

Cause factors

82/C/M C
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 2044. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2044.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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