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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FA015

1977-12-20 GREENWICH, Connecticut, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1008B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

KITFOX KITFOX 3

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00826

Registrant of record

COZBY CHARLES L

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

BEAGLE B206 · N1008B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WESTCHESTER CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

090° / 11 kt

Temp

32° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000B206055

Total time

2,086 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

14,255

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/62 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE 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 4261. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4261.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.