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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FGM27

1979-05-11 BEAVER FALLS, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3787B Beech 18S 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

BEECH 18S · N3787B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

BEAVER COUNTY

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000BA-87

Total time

9,774 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,885

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IZERS,RUDDERS DAMAGED, TAIL WHEEL TORN OFF.

Investigator remarks

DIRECT CROSSWIND GUSTS OF 20 KTS.VERTICAL STABIL

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1013. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1013.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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