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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FHA29

1975-02-02 SUSSEX, New Jersey, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N59502

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RYAN AERONAUTICAL ST3KR

Year of manufacture

1945 · 30 years old at event

Engine

KINNER R5 SERIES (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560708

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7B26D

Registrant of record

GERTSEN RONALD H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N59502 Ryan ST-3KR 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

RYAN ST-3KR · N59502

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SUSSEX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001293

Total time

3,031 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,392

Age

59

Cause factors

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 0045. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0045.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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