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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0493

1966-02-09 WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N168L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 680A

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

P&W CANADA PW306D1

Seats / Engines

10 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20211109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A11060

Registrant of record

TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N168L BEECHCRAFT C45H 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

BEECHCRAFT C45H · N168L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

BRADLEY

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Total time

4,245 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,724

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG GR-RETRACTED FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Investigator remarks

NIGHT OPERATION

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 0168. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0168.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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