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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNA29

1979-08-26 NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N734QZ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172N

Year of manufacture

1977 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770429

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9DB5D

Registrant of record

AMERICAN AIRMAN INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N734QZ Cessna 172N 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 172N · N734QZ

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

PLUM ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017269073

Total time

906 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

79

Age

29

Investigator remarks

2700FT RWY.ACFT NEAR MAX GWT.TEMP 80DEG F.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3059. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3059.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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