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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FHD29

1977-08-25 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1993A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PDPS PZL-BIELSKO SZD-48-3

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930609

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18C5C

Registrant of record

BUCHAR ZDENEK

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1993A Piper PA-18A 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

PIPER PA-18A · N1993A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-1818

Total time

2,395 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

570

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RE DESTROYED THE ACFT APRX 12 HRS LATER.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK A SMALL MOUND OF DIRT.WIND GUSTING 15K.FI

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
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 3179. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3179.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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