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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI68D0305

1967-09-05 PARK FALLS, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9685M Mooney 20C 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

MOONEY 20C · N9685M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

PARK FALLS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 2 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

321 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

293

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AVAILABLE,ABORTED.WENT INTO RIVER AT END OF RNWY.

Investigator remarks

IP TOOK CONTROLS TO GO-AROUND,INSUFFICIENT RNWY

Cause factors

66/C/25 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/06 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3340. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3340.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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