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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79DNC13

1978-11-19 BANGOR, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91470

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180H

Year of manufacture

1969 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19691009

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACA8ED

Registrant of record

SKY SAILING INC

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

CESSNA 180 · N91470

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

BANGOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052094

Total time

1,805 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,232

Age

38

Cause factors

  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 3561. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3561.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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