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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65A0095

1965-01-18 WINDSOR LOCK, Connecticut, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4406 Convair CV-440 Serious

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

CONVAIR CV-440 · N4406

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Airport

BRADLEY

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

200° / 2 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

20,973 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

16,527

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SS VALVE- PASSENGER GOT OUT OF SEAT CONTRA ORDERS

Investigator remarks

IMPROPER RETAINING RING INSTALLED IN HYDRO BY-PA

Cause factors

75/A/BI A
SYSTEMS BY-PASS VALVE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D4 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/12 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Joint cause
88/J/46 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WRONG PART Joint cause
88/J/CD J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED 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 1 0003. Source file NTSB_1965_1_0003.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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