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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X1242

1964-04-10 MIDDLETOWN, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1862K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8E

Year of manufacture

1947 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19840106

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1599E

Registrant of record

GADIS ETHAN G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1862K Luscombe 8F 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

LUSCOMBE 8F · N1862K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

RANDALL

Kind of flying

DB

Pilot

Certificate

C3 (C3)

Total hours

40,000

Age

499

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D4 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CC A
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/CB J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Joint 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 0871. Source file NTSB_1964_3_0871.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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