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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FGM16

1979-02-12 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N52LF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

YAKOVLEV YAK 52

Year of manufacture

1987

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950420

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A68795

Registrant of record

AERO SPORT CRAFT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N52LF Swearingen SA26AT 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

SWEARINGEN SA26AT · N52LF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BUTLER-GRAHAM

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

18° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000138

Total time

4,617 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,930

Age

33

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
80/L/BC L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY
80/K/BD K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS 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 0190. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0190.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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