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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUM05

1973-08-28 CALIPATRIA, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9095V 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 · N9095V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

CALIPATRIA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 8 kt

Temp

95° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000690009

Total time

1,069 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

300

Age

45

Investigator remarks

HIT TREES.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND
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 2578. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2578.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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