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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0501

1966-02-26 WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2021W BEECHCRAFT S35 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 S35 · N2021W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

D

Airport

BRADLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

112 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

260

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L DAMAGE

Investigator remarks

PARKED AIRCRAFT AERO CMDR 560F N6353U SUBSTANTIA

Cause factors

64/A/21 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BP J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RAMP/TAXIWAY Joint 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 0312. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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