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MIA72FLA28

1972-01-04 · BELL, Florida, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY M-22 · N7728M
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
240° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000690003
Total time
608 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,500
Age
39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROAD.

Investigator remarks

ENG FAILED INTERNALLY. HIT WIRES AND SIGN LDG ON

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AC C
    POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
  • 74/C/AE C
    POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
  • 88/C/80 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0888. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0888.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.