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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC82FGT06

1981-12-12 BROGUE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N97206

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

UNIVERSAL STINSON 108

Year of manufacture

1946 · 35 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6A4150 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620717

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD8D8A

Registrant of record

COX ALEX E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

STINSON 108 · N97206

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BAUBLITZ

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

010° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000108-206

Total time

2,401 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,026

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GSTY X-WND,STRUCK BRUSH BESIDE RWY.

Investigator remarks

AFTER TKOF IN 3 POINT ATTITUDE,DRIFTED LEFT IN R

Cause factors

  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause
  • 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 3524. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3524.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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