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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FGM01

1979-10-04 CONNELLSVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3075N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-236

Year of manufacture

1979 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A33C67

Registrant of record

INCESSANT AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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-28 · N3075N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

A2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017700062

Total time

3,082 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

446

Age

27

Investigator remarks

WIND GUST TO 30KTS.

Cause factors

74/C/DB C
POWERPLANT LINES,HOSES,FITTING Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 3604. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3604.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2020 · Conference paper

Under Pressure: Decision Making in Aircraft Maintenance and the Role of Gender

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