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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69A0006

1968-07-06 NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5598A Beech T-34A 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

BEECH T-34A · N5598A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

J

Airport

PLUM ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

56 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,500

Age

41

Investigator remarks

CRASHED APPROX 150 FT OFF SHORE IN OCEAN.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/14 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint 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 2124. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2124.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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