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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC77IA020

1976-12-07 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8106N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Year of manufacture

1992

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19920829

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB0C93

Registrant of record

CONTINENTAL ENTERPRISE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BOEING 727 · N8106N

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

PHILADELPHIA INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

160° / 24 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Investigator remarks

REPORTD WINDS 160 DEG AT 24KTS GUSTING TO 34KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BA J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 4 0014. Source file NTSB_1976_4_0014.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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