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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC78FHM03

1978-01-18 TETERBORO, New Jersey, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8266F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150F

Year of manufacture

1966 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660610

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB4A55

Registrant of record

ONEMANCONCRETE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8266F Cessna 150F 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 150F · N8266F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

TERTERBORO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015064366

Total time

1,729 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

244

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PA28-N40735 MINOR,M20C-N2627W & BE35-N91385,SUBST.

Investigator remarks

PILOT WAS HAND PROPPING A/C,CONTROLS UNATTENDED,

Cause factors

64/A/37 A
PILOT IN COMMAND STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT 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 0009. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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