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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67F0297

1966-10-08 OCEAN CITY, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5339W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6BF3A

Registrant of record

SMITH MARK R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5339W Piper PA-28 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-28 · N5339W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OCEAN CITY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,222 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

42

Age

39

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3139. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3139.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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