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NYC81FHD26

1981-05-22 · SALEM, New Jersey, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STEARMAN PT-17 · N92X
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Airport
SALEM
Kind of flying
B1

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
140° / 12 kt
Temp
69° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000075-3796
Total time
3,449 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
381
Age
26

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/B/07 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
  • 88/L/91 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1410. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1410.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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