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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FNA22

1978-04-29 NORWOOD, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9305C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180

Year of manufacture

1955 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACE8B3

Registrant of record

LINN MICHAEL A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9305C 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 · N9305C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

NORWOOD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7816502

Total time

14 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

19,075

Age

58

Investigator remarks

WINDS GUSTING 35 KTS.

Cause factors

66/C/25 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
66/C/07 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT
82/K/H K
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1699. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1699.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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