Atlas / NTSB / NYC69F0201

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0201

1968-09-22 CANANDAIGUA, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8809W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MESSERSCHMITT-BOLKOW-BLOHM BO 105 P

Year of manufacture

1983

Engine

ROLLS-ROYC 250-C20B (420 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20230421

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC217D

Registrant of record

FLT SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8809W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N8809W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ALDRIDGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

578 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

271

Age

42

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR SHOCK STRUT PISTON FAILED.

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 3639. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3639.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.