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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66D0717

1966-04-16 RANCOCAS, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6969W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-140

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651025

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A944A8

Registrant of record

JONES ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6969W Piper PA-28 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 PA-28 · N6969W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

63 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

162

Age

45

Cause factors

64/A/03 A
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 1365. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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