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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71DVA82

1971-06-12 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N231L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20K

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-360 SER (225 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790208

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A20D31

Registrant of record

FRANCKOWIAK BERNARD A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N231L Beech S35 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

BEECH S35 · N231L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7363

Total time

2,757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

565

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T BFR IMPCT W GND.CRASH LNDD.

Investigator remarks

PWR OFF DSCNT,ENG DID NOT RSPND TO PWR UNTIL JUS

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/34 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ENGINE LOADED UP Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 2801. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2801.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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