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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66A0046

1966-02-27 BUFFALO, Minnesota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3065J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AIRBUS CANADA LP BD-500-1A11

Year of manufacture

2021

TCDS

T00008NY · AIRBUS CANADA LP

Engine

P & W PW1500G SER

Seats / Engines

153 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20210823

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A338AC

Registrant of record

JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP

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

CESSNA 150E · N3065J

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 13 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,032 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

59

Age

22

Cause factors

  • 64/A/46 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2 0146. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0146.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.