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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75FEA09

1974-08-14 FRANKLIN, Indiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21538

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20M

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AF1B (270 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140905

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1CEF7

Registrant of record

KEYSER SOZE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 182 · N21538

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

FRANKLYN FLYING

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

080° / 8 kt

Temp

83° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018261699

Total time

520 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

770

Age

53

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2471. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2471.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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