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Event FTW81DQD20

1981-05-05 DEMING, New Mexico, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N18JK

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1969 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690108

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A13F25

Registrant of record

TALLEY WARBIRDS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N18JK 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 · N18JK

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DEMING MUNI

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

010° / 12 kt

Temp

71° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000690020

Total time

2,540 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,050

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DWN & LOCKED PSN.

Investigator remarks

BROKEN ALTERNATOR WIRE.GEAR NOT CRANKED TO FULLY

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/J/AC J
SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS Joint cause
88/J/CG J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OPEN Joint cause
88/J/33 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ELECTRICAL 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 0668. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0668.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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