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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66D0074

1965-07-09 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3431H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415-C

Year of manufacture

1946 · 19 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C75 SERIES (75 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560612

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3CAF6

Registrant of record

BUCHANAN RICHARD C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3431H Ercoupe 415C 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

ERCOUPE 415C · N3431H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MATTITUCK

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

930 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

37

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN 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 1850. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1850.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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