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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0323

1966-10-02 FINLEYVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1564A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH F33A

Year of manufacture

1989

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890224

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E35E

Registrant of record

MCNUTT SETH D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1564A Piper PA-20 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

PIPER PA-20 · N1564A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

FINLEYVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 7 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,183 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

147

Age

33

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 2981. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2981.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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