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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0094

1965-07-12 UTICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6494P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-24-250

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19591211

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8899C

Registrant of record

PIEHL DEBORAH C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6494P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N6494P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

ONEIDA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 3 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,168 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

275

Age

49

Cause factors

88/A/72 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
82/A/G A
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING 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 1852. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1852.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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