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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81DEP42

1981-08-09 DODGEVILLE, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5892Q Mooney M20C 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 M20C · N5892Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DODGEVILLE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003154

Total time

2,939 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

422

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BRAKING USED DRG LAST PART OF GND ROLL.

Investigator remarks

WND SHIFTED FM SW TO NW AT APRX TIME OF LNDG.MAX

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
82/L/J L
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2815. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2815.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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