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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA75AM055

1975-02-08 ZEPHERHILLS, Florida, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1041C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20M

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20031013

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0160E

Registrant of record

HELZER TIMOTHY

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

N.AMERICAN SNJ-5 · N1041C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / 7 kt

Temp

52° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000NAA-638

Total time

5,212 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,717

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OFF AND DSCND.

Investigator remarks

DRG ROLL-OUT FM INVERTED PSN ACFT OBSVD TO SLIDE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/14 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 0864. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0864.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.