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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FNE11

1971-08-12 DEERFIELD, Massachusetts, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1866C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-C33A

Year of manufacture

1966 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A15A23

Registrant of record

SCIALABBA SAMUEL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1866C Beech 35C33A Minor

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

BEECH 35C33A · N1866C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DE

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000CE-60

Total time

642 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,560

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PIPE.

Investigator remarks

ENG OVRTEMP.OIL BLOW-BY,LEAKAGE THRU OIL FILLER

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/CI C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/C/97 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2994. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2994.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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