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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA71FLD56

1971-04-01 LEESBURG, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2911L Mooney 20F 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 20F · N2911L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

LEESBURG ARPT

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000670305

Total time

1,789 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

362

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INTO LOCKING PSN.

Investigator remarks

BORE OF LDG GR LOCK WORN SO GRIP COULD NOT SLIDE

Cause factors

70/A/CN A
AIRFRAME SWITCHES,LEVERS,CRANKING MECHANISM,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BQ A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY 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 1080. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1080.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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