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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DVG54

1980-07-11 GRASS VALLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5665Q Mooney M20C 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 M20C · N5665Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

NEVADA COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003031

Total time

1,440 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

306

Age

33

Investigator remarks

BRAKE SHOES WORN.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
70/K/CJ K
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Joint factor
88/K/BQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Joint factor
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 1649. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1649.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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