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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67F0054

1966-07-12 NEWPORT, Rhode Island, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1689K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8E

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19570620

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A11303

Registrant of record

CHLADEK GABRIEL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 8E · N1689K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

NEWPORT AIRPARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,715 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

151

Age

25

Cause factors

  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF 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 1567. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1567.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.