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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FGM27

1978-05-13 WAYNESBURG, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1031J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ANDERSON JUSTIN C 16G1031J

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0125D

Registrant of record

ANDERSON JUSTIN C

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

AERO COMDR 112 · N1031J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GREENE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

360° / 6 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000031

Total time

900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

228

Age

57

Investigator remarks

WINDS GUSTING 35 KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 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 1705. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1705.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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