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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FTC27

1976-03-22 RAWLINS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6257U

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

19620426

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A82C30

Registrant of record

RIPPEY BARRETT F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6257U 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 · N6257U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

RAWLINS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

220° / 28 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002096

Total time

1,850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

75

Age

41

Investigator remarks

MAX GUSTS 35KTS NOT GIVEN TO PLT BY FSS RAWLINS.

Cause factors

64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
82/C/J C
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT 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 0860. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0860.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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