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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW81FRG61

1981-08-28 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N55FE 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 · N55FE

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000619

Total time

2,656 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,431

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AFTER PRCTNRY LNDG.WND GSTG 15KTS.

Investigator remarks

R WING COLLIDED W NEWSPERSON DRG TKOF FM ROADWAY

Cause factors

68/A/K2 A
PERSONNEL SPECTATOR 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 1964. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1964.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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