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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FHD08

1978-02-21 PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 172 · N13480

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

NO.PHILADELPHIA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 9 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017262782

Total time

1,864 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

82

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3345. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3345.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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