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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW67D0457

1967-02-07 SLIDELL, Louisiana, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N78996

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

19620220

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAB5A7

Registrant of record

DODGE DONALD V

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N78996 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 · N78996

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SLIDELL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

3,490 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

300

Age

31

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/J/22 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH 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 0443. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0443.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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