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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79DHM08

1979-02-03 MONTGOMERY, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N739PF Cessna 172N 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

CESSNA 172N · N739PF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

ORANGE CO

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017270691

Total time

501 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

22

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING CESSNA 150.STRUCK PARKED CESSNA 172-SUB DMG.

Investigator remarks

TAXIED TO R ON TAXIWAY TO ALLOW FOR CLNC TO TAXI

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 0400. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0400.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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