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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0216

1968-10-08 CANANDAIGUA, New York, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6823D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 340A

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19800905

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A90D6A

Registrant of record

S A FLIERS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 180 · N6823D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CANANDIGUA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

2,676 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

515

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D.RUST INCLUSIONS,ELONGATED BOLT HOLES.

Investigator remarks

LT FLOAT NOSE GR FORK CASTING,EDO PN 3400D,FAILE

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CY A
    AIRFRAME OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Joint 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 3696. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3696.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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