NTSB CAROL · Event
Event NYC69F0143
Aircraft involved
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
COLONIAL C-1 · N257B
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — level (EA)
Operator type
D
Airport
BUFFALO AIRPARK
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
300° / 6 kt
Aircraft history
Total time
865 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
845
Age
37
Investigator remarks
PLT ATTEMPTED TO STRETCH GLIDE.
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
- 64/B/16 B PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
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 2932.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_2932.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2016 · Journal article (IJAAA)
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- NASA NTRS 2026 · Presentation
Low Altitude RA Virtual Pilot Tabletop: Preliminary Results Summary
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Next-Generation Aerial Robots -- Omniorientational Strategies: Dynamic Modeling, Control, and Comparative Analysis
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- arXiv 2024 · arXiv preprint
High-fidelity study of three-dimensional turbulent transonic buffet on wide-span infinite wings
Turbulent transonic buffet is an aerodynamic instability causing periodic oscillations of lift/drag in aerospace applications.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Other
Engine System Loads Analysis Compared to Hot-Fire Data
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