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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FNE26

1978-07-10 STERLING, Massachusetts, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N557D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LEGACY

Year of manufacture

2010

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-G (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20100811

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A719B7

Registrant of record

DOELL JAMES T

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

SCHEMP HS7 · N557D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

92° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000002

Total time

45 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

721

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

COUNTRY FLT.PILOT DOES NOT REMEMBER OCCURRENCE.

Investigator remarks

PILOT EXPOSED TO HIGH TEMPERATURES DURING CROSS

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/U J
    WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE 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 2335. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2335.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.