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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNC16

1979-01-31 LACONIA, New Hampshire, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2ZM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANCAIR LANCAIR IV-P

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970821

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18F9C

Registrant of record

HAMMACK JEROME P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2ZM Piper PA-31 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-31 · N2ZM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

LACONIA

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000031-164

Total time

6,197 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

30

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BC J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY 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 0403. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0403.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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