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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FHA10

1979-02-18 SLATINGTON, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 152 · N49080

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

SLATINGTON

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

10° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015281139

Total time

252 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

15

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTROL,COLLIDED WITH SNOW BANK,A/C NOSED OVER.

Investigator remarks

STUDENT PLT DURING LDG FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIR CO

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 0159. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0159.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.