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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FHA09

1980-05-04 SLATINGTON, Pennsylvania, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 140 · N72581

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SLATINGTON

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 19 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000009751

Total time

1,041 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

816

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LD TKOF.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 27K.PLT WAS PRACTICING SHORT/SOFT F

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint 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 0887. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0887.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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