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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X0165

1964-01-05 ELLINGTON, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N260C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-235

Year of manufacture

1965

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A27F2F

Registrant of record

JOHNSON THOMAS G JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N260C Stinson 108-2 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

STINSON 108-2 · N260C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

202

Age

27

Cause factors

68/C/H2 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER/INADEQUATE SNOW REMOVAL Cause
80/C/BK C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE 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 0052. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0052.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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