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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD75FIA17

1975-03-15 NEW MARKET, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6705U Mooney M20C Serious

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 · N6705U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

300° / 14 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002437

Total time

1,385 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,750

Age

63

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TIP MISSING.PWR LINES ACROSS HWY.

Investigator remarks

ONE PART OF PROP BLADE FM STATION 14 OUTBOARD TO

Cause factors

74/C/FA C
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 1469. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1469.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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