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NYC78FA026

1978-01-19 · LATROBE, Pennsylvania, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N5VX has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 310C, built 1958), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GRUMMAN G-159 · N5VX
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
Business
Airport
LATROBE
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION
Wind
050° / 3 kt
Temp
22° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000007
Total time
8,656 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
12,998
Age
56

Cause factors

  • 64/C/22 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 82/L/D L
    WEATHER SNOW
  • 80/L/BC L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0034. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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