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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FNA13

1978-03-03 BEVERLY, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1DL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STEMME GMBH & CO S10-VT

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

ROTAX 914 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080619

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00058

Registrant of record

THUNDERBIRD AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1DL Beech P35 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

BEECH P35 · N1DL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BEVERLY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7027

Total time

2,556 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

638

Age

43

Investigator remarks

DURING TURN TO TAXIWAY ACFT SLID INTO SNOWBANK.

Cause factors

64/A/50 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BB J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY Joint cause
80/J/BD J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Joint 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 1562. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1562.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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