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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DCA65A0005

1965-02-08 JONES BEACH LI, New York, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N849D Douglas DC-7B Fatal

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

DOUGLAS DC-7B · N849D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Airport

JF KENNEDY INTL

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

250° / 7 kt

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Total time

18,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

12,607

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

-AIR COLLISION N707PA.

Investigator remarks

N849D CRASHED INTO ATLANTIC OCEAN AFTER NEAR MID

Cause factors

64/C/66 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause
84/C/7 C
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 1 0001. Source file NTSB_1965_1_0001.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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