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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FHJ13

1978-05-26 WHITE PLAINS, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9750D Piper PA-22 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-22 · N9750D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WESTCHESTER CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

160° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-6663

Total time

1,667 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,816

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED L ONTO GRASS AREA,ACFT TIPPED AND ROLLED OVER.

Investigator remarks

OUT OF BALANCE AND TIRE ROUGHNESS IN R TIRE.TURN

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/CV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE Cause
88/C/DF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE Cause

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 2583. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2583.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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