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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FPJ36

1978-08-19 OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5MD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1966 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660204

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63655

Registrant of record

DUNN VINCENT K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5MD Cessna 310C 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 310C · N5MD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Business

Airport

CLARENCE PAGE

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

020° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035906

Total time

5,914 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

595

Age

47

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR CAME OPEN ON TAKEOFF ROLL.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CJ J
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Joint cause
88/J/CI J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERHEATED Joint cause
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 2933. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2933.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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