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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65F0098

1965-04-04 WINTERPORT, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N232E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD 24R-40

Engine

FAIRCHILD 6-440 SERIES (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560716

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A21052

Registrant of record

THOMSON SCOTT R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N232E Fairchild 24R-40 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

FAIRCHILD 24R-40 · N232E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WINTERPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,756 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

1,500

Age

400

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/A/63 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 3 0538. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0538.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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