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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FHD20

1978-07-12 OXFORD, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N49680

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A629EB

Registrant of record

BERGERON JONATHAN C

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

STEARMAN A75N1 · N49680

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

OXFORD

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000027-4333

Total time

3,813 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,606

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AIRCRAFT RAN OFF RUNWAY INTO ROCK PILE.

Investigator remarks

PIC ABORTED TAKEOFF WHEN CABIN DOOR POPPED OPEN.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS 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 4394. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4394.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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