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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79IA039

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

Aircraft involved

N145PA Beech BE-18 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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