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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67D0461

1966-12-28 EAST BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9254M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1966 · 0 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660623

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACD3AD

Registrant of record

WHITTAKER VICTOR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9254M Mooney MK21 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

MOONEY MK21 · N9254M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BOSTON-LOGAN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Total time

281 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

550

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NGTH,WIDTH AND 90 PCT BARE TO X RNWY 33L.

Investigator remarks

ATIS MESSAGE HOTEL ADVISED RNWY 4R-OPEN FULL LE

Cause factors

68/C/H2 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER/INADEQUATE SNOW REMOVAL Cause
64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
80/C/BD C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 4323. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4323.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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