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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTC09

1980-02-25 ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5216E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20J

Year of manufacture

1988

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19880712

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A68FD4

Registrant of record

TREETOP AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5216E Cessna 172N 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

CESSNA 172N · N5216E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ROCK SPRINGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 11 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017271775

Total time

878 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

62

Age

27

Investigator remarks

NOSE WHEEL BLEW OUT ON LNDG

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0796. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0796.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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