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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65F0002

1965-01-30 MONTGOMERY, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5686Z Piper PA22 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

PIPER PA22 · N5686Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ORANGE COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 5 kt

Temp

19° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,298 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

15

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 0139. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0139.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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