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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FA105

1979-09-24 WARREN, Vermont, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1984S Beech 35C33A Fatal

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

BEECH 35C33A · N1984S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

WARREN-SUGARBUSH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CE-130

Total time

1,220 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,330

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S.HIT TREES 16FT AGL,ARPT BNDRY.ICE ON ACFT.

Investigator remarks

DEP RWY APRX 150FT FM START PT.CONT TKOF ON GRAS

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/81 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/74 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/75 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-WINDSHIELD Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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 3628. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3628.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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