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NYC79IA039

1979-04-05 · NEWBURGH, New York, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH BE-18 · N145PA
Damage
Minor
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
C
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Operator type
E
Airport
STEWART
Kind of flying
CJ

Weather at impact

Sky
BROKEN
Wind
270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000BA486
Total time
7,772 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
5,615
Age
54

Investigator remarks

WINDS GUSTING 18KTS.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/28 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 5 0009. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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