NYC79FA035
1979-04-04 · NEWBURG, New York, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- BEECH E-18 · N149PA
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dusk
- Weather
- IMC
- Phase of flight
- EJ
- Operator type
- E
- Airport
- STEWART
- Kind of flying
- CJ
Weather at impact
- Sky
- BROKEN
- Wind
- 120° / 14 kt
- Temp
- 37° F
Aircraft history
- Serial number
- 000000BA-412
- Total time
- 5,010 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- DA (DA)
- Total hours
- 3,897
- Age
- 29
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
R TO HIS ENTERING HOLDING.
Investigator remarks
PILOT INFORMED OF ICING AT HOLDING ALTITUDE PRIO
Cause factors
- 64/A/27 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/74 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Joint cause
- 82/J/F J WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 1088.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_1088.txt.
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