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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76FHM30

1976-06-09 WARWICK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N79435

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172K

Year of manufacture

1969 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691016

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAC9C0

Registrant of record

PEARCE GREGORY W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N79435 Cessna 172K 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 172K · N79435

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000058084

Total time

2,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OOP TO AVOID GOING OVR THE HILL.

Investigator remarks

HAY FIELD,NOSE GR SEPARATED WHEN PLT ATMTD GND L

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/B/DF B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1657. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1657.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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