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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DIA67D0008

1966-10-29 NEW CASTLE, Virginia, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5142V Morrisey 2150A 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

MORRISEY 2150A · N5142V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NEW CASTLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 10 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Total time

699 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

185

Age

46

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT STRUCK RUT IN RUNWAY.

Cause factors

80/A/BJ A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/H0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE-AIRPORT FACILITIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3 3753. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3753.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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