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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FHA42

1975-05-23 HONESDALE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N221

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560

Year of manufacture

2002

Engine

P&W CANADA PW535A

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20021010

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1E4B7

Registrant of record

AMBROSE CONSULTING CORP

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

CAMAIR 480 · N221

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

L

Airport

CHERRY RIDGE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001-062

Total time

2,088 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,000

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WARPED AND RIDGED.ROLLED DWN HILL HIT ROCKS.

Investigator remarks

PLT HEARD LOUD POP WHEN BRAKES APLD.L BRAKE DISC

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/82 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
  • 70/L/CJ L
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM)
  • 88/K/DH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor
  • 80/K/BY K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1093. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1093.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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