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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUG41

1971-02-14 NORTH SHORE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5778Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1965 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650611

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A76BE9

Registrant of record

PARS AVN CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5778Q Mooney M21 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 M21 · N5778Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORTH SHORE ARPT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003091

Total time

1,566 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,000

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT AFFECTED ZONE.

Investigator remarks

ACTUATING LEVER,MOONEY P/N5059,FAILED IN WELD HE

Cause factors

68/A/J0 A
PERSONNEL SUBSTANDARD QUALITY CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CN A
AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 0830. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0830.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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