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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80FA121

1980-02-16 BISHOP, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N231EY Mooney M20K Fatal

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 M20K · N231EY

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

170° / 20 kt

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-0192

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

52

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE 7/13/80.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/F L
WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC.
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING

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 3509. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3509.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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