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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN65D0100

1965-05-20 DELTA, Colorado, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N185DC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19620914

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1538D

Registrant of record

WOOD RONAL D JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N185DC Mooney 20C Minor

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 · N185DC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

BLAKE FIELD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

831 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,339

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-CATTLE STRAYED ONTO RUNWAY.

Investigator remarks

AIRPORT NOT FENCED TO EXCLUDED CATTLE.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/1/H0 1
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE-AIRPORT FACILITIES Subordinate · 1

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 1077. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1077.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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