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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0152

1965-10-30 BRAWLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N79835

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1964 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19641202

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAD89C

Registrant of record

CAMPOAMOR SANCHEZ FERNANDO

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N79835 Mooney M20G 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 M20G · N79835

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BRAWLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

186 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

CE (CE)

Total hours

1,065

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GE.NIGHT OPERATION

Investigator remarks

PARKED AIRCRAFT NAVION B N91407 SUBSTANTIAL DAMA

Cause factors

64/A/74 A
PILOT IN COMMAND LEFT AIRCRAFT UNATTENDED, ENGINE RUNNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT 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 3716. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3716.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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