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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FGM41

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

Aircraft involved

N15DC Schleicher ASW-15 None

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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