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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC75FNE32

1975-04-05 SIMSBURY, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6503F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A150L

Year of manufacture

1973 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730904

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A88F81

Registrant of record

STOCKTON KETRON J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6503F Cessna A150L 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 A150L · N6503F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SIMSBURY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

320° / 15 kt

Temp

29° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000A1500446

Total time

576 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

88

Age

26

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 25K.

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0400. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0400.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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