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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN71FXD40

1970-12-05 AURORA, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9698M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20F

Year of manufacture

1967 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD8111

Registrant of record

CIOTA SHANE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9698M Mooney M20F 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 M20F · N9698M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

BUCKLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000670245

Total time

482 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,866

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CUP OF WATER DRAINED FROM L FUEL TANK SUMP

Investigator remarks

HIT POWER CABLES LANDED W/O FURTHER INCIDENT.TEA

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause

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 4355. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4355.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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