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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC70F0154

1969-09-07 MATTITUCK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1838H Cessna 310C 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 310C · N1838H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MATTITUCK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035938

Total time

4,913 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

509

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D APRX 20FT HIGH.L TIRE BLEW OUT,WINGS DMGD.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OBSVD IN SLOW NOSE HIGH PWR APCH.PWR REDUCE

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3610. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3610.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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