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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75AD037

1975-01-05 ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8124E Mooney M20A Fatal

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 M20A · N8124E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

D

Airport

ROCK SPRINGS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

190° / 8 kt

Temp

22° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001395

Total time

1,763 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

559

Age

49

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE 1/11/75.

Cause factors

64/A/66 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/D J
WEATHER SNOW Joint cause
82/J/A J
WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
82/J/C J
WEATHER FOG Joint 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 0192. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0192.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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