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Event NYC78DFA24

1978-06-25 GREENFIELD PK, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9961H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FAIRCHILD M-62A-3

Engine

FAIRCHILD 6-440 SERIES (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580311

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADEB70

Registrant of record

CONKLIN MATTHEW J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9961H Fairchild M62A 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

FAIRCHILD M62A · N9961H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

552 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,640

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RECOVERED.

Investigator remarks

PROP DESTROYED,PIECES MISSING IN SWAMP.ACFT NOT

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3337. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3337.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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