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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FA026

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

Registry · N5VX

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310C

Year of manufacture

1958 · 20 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19581224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6372F

Registrant of record

PARROTT LAND & CATTLE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5VX Grumman G-159 None

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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