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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNA30

1979-09-26 MARLBORO, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N29010

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD 24W-40

Year of manufacture

1940 · 39 years old at event

Engine

WARNER SS40&50 (90 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580825

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2F80E

Registrant of record

GONZALES DONALD M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N29010 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N29010

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MARLBORO

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

170 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

84

Age

35

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
88/L/DH L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY

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 3058. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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