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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FHD26

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

Aircraft involved

N92X Stearman PT-17 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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