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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC81FNE20

1981-05-17 PLYMOUTH, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7789S Schweizer 2-33 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

SCHWEIZER 2-33 · N7789S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WATERBURY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000159

Total time

1,923 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

38

Age

38

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 18K.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 2851. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2851.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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