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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FNE06

1979-01-31 WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1861L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-B55 (T42A)

Year of manufacture

1976 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19760513

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1597C

Registrant of record

BAKER JAMES W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1861L Beech B55 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

BEECH B55 · N1861L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

BRADLY

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

320° / 20 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001964

Total time

428 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

36

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
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 0199. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0199.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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