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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI69D0250

1968-08-21 MENTONE, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9224M Mooney M20E 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 M20E · N9224M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

MENTONE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 5 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Total time

696 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

171

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IND 5K.

Investigator remarks

TOUCHED DOWN AT MID-FIELD. LEFT QUARTERING TAILW

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/L/82 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 2987. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2987.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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