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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79DNC32

1979-06-27 WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

LAKE LA-4 · N2832P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LAKES REGION

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000923

Total time

105 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

262

Age

36

Investigator remarks

WING STRUCK RWY,ACFT CARTWHEELED.GUSTING 20K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1873. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1873.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.