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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78DNA16

1978-03-18 MARLBORO, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1283Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Year of manufacture

1971 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19710526

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0743A

Registrant of record

MACARUSO MATTHEW H

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

CESSNA 150 · N1283Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

MARLBORO

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

270° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072503

Total time

3,817 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

625

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TING TO 20 KTS.

Investigator remarks

SURFACE WINDS FROM 270 TO 360 DEGREES 10 KTS GUS

Cause factors

  • 66/A/28 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/13 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/J J
    WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT 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 3 0946. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0946.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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