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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77FHM03

1976-11-11 WARWICK, New York, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 195 · N9366A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007524

Total time

2,270 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

610

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.RWY LTS OFF,MUST REQ ON.LIGHTED ARPT NEARBY.

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH N2313C-MINOR DMG,N8123D-DEMOLISHED

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/27 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 3690. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3690.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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