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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78DNA18

1978-04-22 NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7529G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730508

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA2511

Registrant of record

RIBEIRO MARCOS F

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 · N7529G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015074687

Total time

2,894 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

241

Age

25

Cause factors

  • 74/C/KA C
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
  • 64/B/35 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
  • 83/K/K K
    TERRAIN SANDY 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 1697. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1697.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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