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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0079

1966-07-17 MARLBORO, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N25237

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MARLBORO

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 20 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,584 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

780

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 88/L/79 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE

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 1759. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1759.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.