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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FHM13

1971-10-03 RHINEBECK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N666J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLEET FLEET 16B

Year of manufacture

1941 · 30 years old at event

Engine

KINNER B5 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550722

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8CB4B

Registrant of record

RHINEBECK AERODROME MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N666J Fleet 16B 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

FLEET 16B · N666J

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A0

Operator type

D

Airport

OLD RHINEBECK

Kind of flying

DC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000350

Total time

1,387 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

990

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED ON SWITCH WHEN PROP PULLED THRU.

Investigator remarks

PLT DIDNT FOLLOW MECHANICS INSTRUCTIONS AND TURN

Cause factors

64/A/56 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUNDERSTANDING OF ORDERS OR INSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/21 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS 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 4379. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4379.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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