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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC66F0623

1966-04-19 JAMAICA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N593B BEECHCRAFT J35 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 J35 · N593B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

J.F.KENNEDY

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

100° / 20 kt

Temp

46° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,446 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,700

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT.

Investigator remarks

PILOT FOLLOWED TOO CLOSE BEHIND LARGE JET AIRCRA

Cause factors

84/C/1 C
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0859. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0859.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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