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DEN80FA035

1980-05-23 · RAYNESFORD, Montana, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N7068V has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (RANS S-18, built 2003), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY 20F · N7068V
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION
Temp
55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000221410
Total time
906 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,827
Age
57

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3274. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3274.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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