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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FFA20

1979-05-27 WALLKILL, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N80084 Cessna 172M None

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 172M · N80084

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

KOBELT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017266358

Total time

1,040 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

105

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APPROACH.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED ACFT DRIFTED TO R EDGE OF RWY DURING

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1924. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1924.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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