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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC76IA006

1976-10-30 WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5670Y Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N5670Y

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

BRADLEY INTL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

900

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PILOT-LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH ACFT AUTO-PILOT SYS

Investigator remarks

IP DEMO AUTO-PLT DID NOT KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF.

Cause factors

64/A/31 A
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 5 0019. Source file NTSB_1976_5_0019.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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