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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70D0111

1969-06-16 GENESEO, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 195 · N1033D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

GENESEO

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007717

Total time

2,690 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

160

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SECURITY.DID NOT REMOVE LOCK PIN FROM CTL COLUMN.

Investigator remarks

PLT LOCKED CTLS PRIOR TO CHECKING REAR DOOR FOR

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/03 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/09 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GUST LOCKS ENGAGED 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 2871. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2871.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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