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NYC70F0065

1969-06-29 · HAMMONDSPORT, New York, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N81223 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER PA-32-300, built 1979), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FAIRCHILD 24R · N81223
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
D
Airport
BATH-HAMONDSPORT
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000R46124
Total time
523 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
739
Age
45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APRX 4FT HIGH ABT 20FT FROM APCH END OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

PWR APCH,TAIL WHEEL HIT TOP ROW OF CINDER BLOCKS

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/H1 A
    PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/A/BE A
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES UNMARKED OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2916. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2916.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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