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NYC69A0092

1969-04-09 · PHELPS, New York, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERONCA 65-C · N31938
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
DAYSTRIP
Kind of flying
A3

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
180° / 12 kt
Temp
75° F

Aircraft history

Total time
1,280 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
66
Age
45

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AQ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0866. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0866.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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