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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC80FNA07

1980-01-08 BLOCK ISLAND, Rhode Island, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6699S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C23

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19791017

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8D94C

Registrant of record

BEACH COLEEN W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6699S Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N6699S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BLOCK ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 13 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M2225

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

86

Age

19

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 0882. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0882.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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