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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67F0355

1966-10-27 REEDSVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N219Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

YAKOVLEV YAK-9U-M

Year of manufacture

1996

Engine

ALLISON V1710 SERIES (1500 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210821

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1DD17

Registrant of record

SOUTHERN AIRMOTIVE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N219Y BEECHCRAFT E18S 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

BEECHCRAFT E18S · N219Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Business

Airport

MIFFLIN COUNTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 4 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,795 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

10,000

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TING ON AIRCRAFT WINGS.

Investigator remarks

PILOT KNOWINGLY ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF WITH FROST COA

Cause factors

64/C/16 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause

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 3542. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3542.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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