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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80DFJ02

1979-12-30 ELMIRA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2508H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26E

Year of manufacture

1976 · 3 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760412

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A25AF6

Registrant of record

CLEVELAND SOARING SOCIETY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2508H Schweizer SGS126 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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N2508H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HARRIS HILL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000648

Total time

503 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

257

Age

36

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 3609. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3609.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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