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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA74FKG46

1973-12-03 SAVANNAH, Georgia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2220N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20R

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000510

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1EAD4

Registrant of record

DUSHEK MATTHEW S

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

CESSNA 140 · N2220N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SAVANNAH MUN

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

050° / 7 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000012456

Total time

3,939 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

552

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLT.UN CONT,LNDD ON HWY I-16 MEDIAN.

Investigator remarks

FLT ON TOP DSCNDD TO APRX 600FT AGL TO CONT VFR

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3858. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3858.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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