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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80DHA04

1980-01-21 EASTON, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2559C Piper PA-38 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-38 · N2559C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

BRADENS

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

230° / 10 kt

Temp

31° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0038-79A0230

Total time

134 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

31

Age

39

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
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 3 0171. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0171.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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