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NYC66F0623

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

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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