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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67F0398

1966-10-10 SANDSTON, Virginia, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N16160 Piaggio P136L1 Fatal

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

PIAGGIO P136L1 · N16160

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

RICHARD E. BYRD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

622 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

105

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TING PUSHER.PROP.ACFT UNOCCUPIED.

Investigator remarks

PILOT REMOVED EXT CONTROL LOCKS,WALKED INTO ROTA

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 5 0004. Source file NTSB_1966_5_0004.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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