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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FA089

1979-09-03 WARWICK, New York, United States None 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

CESSNA 152 · N7332B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WARWICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000A152-0748

Total time

731 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

47

Age

51

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3156. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.