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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69D0353

1969-03-16 SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22476

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 65-C

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630318

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1F349

Registrant of record

BOWLES CHRIS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N22476 Aeronca 65-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

AERONCA 65-C · N22476

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

SCRANTON

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

22

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION 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 0489. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0489.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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