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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0160

1968-09-01 WOODSTOCK, Connecticut, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N42392

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1945 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560716

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A50A72

Registrant of record

BECKER JON D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N42392 Piper J3C-65 Minor

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 J3C-65 · N42392

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

WOODSTOCK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,345 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

480

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.STRUCK N4583U,SBSTL DAMAGE.

Investigator remarks

HAND PROPPED ACFT-UNQUALIFIED PERSON AT CONTROLS

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3422. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3422.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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