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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0044

1968-07-10 ALBION, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N99630

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ENGINEERING & RESEARCH ERCOUPE 415-C

Year of manufacture

1946 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551001

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADEBC7

Registrant of record

DENNISTON JOHN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N99630 Ercoupe 415-C 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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N99630

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DOWNY FARM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

892 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

110

Age

39

Investigator remarks

2 CHILDREN USED 1 SEAT BELT.

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
80/L/BL L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1913. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1913.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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