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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA68F0404

1968-01-22 CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N79334

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1965 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650324

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAC608

Registrant of record

LEWIS TROY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 · N79334

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LOVELL FIELD

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

304 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

7,050

Age

48

Cause factors

  • 66/A/10 A
    DUAL STUDENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 0094. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0094.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.