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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76DLA43

1976-04-09 LANARK VILLAGE, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9BW

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20J

Year of manufacture

1984

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19841130

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC6AA8

Registrant of record

FASTMOON LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9BW Beech C23 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

BEECH C23 · N9BW

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 6 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1426

Total time

2,247 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

138

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT ROLLED INTO AREA OF BRUSH AND SAND DUNE

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
88/L/17 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED AT WRONG AIRPORT
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 1366. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1366.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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