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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74DLA33

1974-02-20 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7105U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1964 · 10 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640528

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A97F27

Registrant of record

MOLTER ROY G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7105U Mooney M20E 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 M20E · N7105U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

REGIONAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000389

Total time

1,156 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,332

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

100-130IN LBS.ACFT R GR 336,L 384,NOSE 144IN LBS.

Investigator remarks

MFG SPECIFIES MAIN GR PRELOAD 240-280LBS,NOSE GR

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS Joint cause

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 0547. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0547.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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