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.
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