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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0466

1966-01-17 GLOCESTER, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10410

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 177B

Year of manufacture

1975

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750902

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01624

Registrant of record

CLARK GEORGE A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10410 Beech A45 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

BEECH A45 · N10410

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

L

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 18 kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,834 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

111

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TIONAL WHEELS-UP LANDING.

Investigator remarks

NO.1 CYLINDER CONNECTING ROD BOLTS FAILED. INTEN

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 1173. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1173.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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