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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW66F0360

1965-11-01 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6688R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1964 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640807

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8D571

Registrant of record

FARLEY CLAYTON

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6688R Mooney M20E 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 M20E · N6688R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DOWNTOWN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

375 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

850

Age

57

Investigator remarks

NOSE GEAR SHOCK ABSORBER FAILED

Cause factors

70/A/CE A
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3069. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3069.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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