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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FGM04

1977-10-15 FINLEYVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N47282

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-8

Year of manufacture

2022

TCDS

A16WE · BOEING

Engine

CFM INTL LEAP-1B28 SER

Seats / Engines

175 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20220809

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5CC13

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

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

TAYLORCRAFT L-2M · N47282

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FINLEYVILLE AIRPK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 11 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000L-5182

Total time

1,113 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

71

Age

44

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 26 KTS, CALM ON TKOF.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 2939. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2939.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.