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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FFA13

1979-02-13 UTICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55069

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-200

Year of manufacture

1973 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730305

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A702B7

Registrant of record

TRE AVIATION CORP

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

PIPER PA-28R · N55069

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

L

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000055069

Total time

1,732 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,815

Age

44

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0412. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0412.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.