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NYC76FGM41

1976-08-01 · CLAYSBURG, Pennsylvania, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
SCHLEICHER ASW-15 · N15DC
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
C
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000015DC
Total time
400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,400
Age
35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIRBORN,LANDED IN TREE

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED DOWNDRAFT ALONG RIDGE,UNABLE TO STAY

Cause factors

  • 64/A/48 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3037. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3037.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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