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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FGM10

1981-01-25 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7578B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2012

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20121210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA377C

Registrant of record

BOOMER EQUIPMENT LEASING LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7578B Aeronca 7EC 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

AERONCA 7EC · N7578B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BUTLER COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000077

Total time

1,843 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

180

Age

22

Investigator remarks

3FT SNOWBANK NR APPROACH END OF RWY.

Cause factors

64/C/54 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause
80/L/BY L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 0004. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0004.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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