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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FHD15

1980-06-05 BRIDGEPORT, New Jersey, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N600W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

WILCOXON CVJETKOVIC CA65

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C933

Registrant of record

PORT OF TILLAMOOK BAY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N600W Bede 4 Minor

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

BEDE 4 · N600W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BRIDGEPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000600

Total time

75 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,947

Age

58

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause

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 0838. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0838.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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