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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69A0114

1969-06-30 RANCOCAS, New Jersey, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8609Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

POWRACHUTE POWERED PARA PEGASUS

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABD281

Registrant of record

RICHARDSON WESLEY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8609Y Piper PA-30 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

PIPER PA-30 · N8609Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

INDEL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 8 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Total time

188 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

874

Age

30

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED SINGLE-ENG FLT.

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
66/B/16 B
DUAL STUDENT
64/B/30 B
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT

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 2062. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2062.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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