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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FGM14

1977-12-27 MARTINSBURG, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N43157 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N43157

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ALTOONA-BLAIR CO

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

290° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7415434

Total time

1,450 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

25

Age

22

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/K/BD K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS 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 3926. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3926.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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