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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0311

1969-01-06 BURLINGTON, Vermont, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N533Q Beech 95-D55 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

BEECH 95-D55 · N533Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

BURLINGTON

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 11 kt

Temp

18° F

Aircraft history

Total time

31 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

303

Age

55

Investigator remarks

ROUGH ICE ON RNWY. GR SAFETY SWITCH OPERATIVE.

Cause factors

64/A/13 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BB J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY 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 0683. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0683.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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