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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC69F0437

1969-04-30 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2294T

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BUCKER JUNGMANN C.A.S.A. 1.131

Year of manufacture

1954 · 15 years old at event

Engine

E.N.M.A. GIV SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810710

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20566

Registrant of record

ROWLAND MAXWELL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2294T Cessna 185E 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

CESSNA 185E · N2294T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MATTITUCK

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000185-1455

Total time

38 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,340

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TER ACDNT,THROTTLE OBSVD TO CREEP WITH LOCK OFF.

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE FRICTION LOCK NOT SET.DRG ENG RUN-UP AF

Cause factors

65/C/29 C
COPILOT Cause
65/C/21 C
COPILOT Cause
65/C/16 C
COPILOT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 4711. Source file NTSB_1969_3_4711.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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