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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FHA32

1976-04-11 PITTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170A

Year of manufacture

1949 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560526

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94FDC

Registrant of record

INTABYTE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7A Cessna 170A 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

CESSNA 170A · N7A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SKY MANOR

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 22 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018837

Total time

3,022 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

6,634

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

O FLYING ACFT DUE OPEN COWL.STRONG WIND GUSTS.

Investigator remarks

COWLING LATCH SPRING BENT LATCH HOOK RLSD.PLT SL

Cause factors

70/C/BY C
AIRFRAME OTHER Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/C/M C
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause
67/B/30 B
CHECK PILOT
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1081. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1081.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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