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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FLA50

1976-05-26 LAKE CITY, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6922U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1964 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A934D5

Registrant of record

STRATEGIC AVIATION ASSETS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6922U 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 · N6922U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LAKE CITY MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000292

Total time

1,803 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UTOPILOT CAUSED WING STRIKE GROUND DURING LNDG.

Investigator remarks

SYSTEMS-ERRATIC INPUT TO AILERONS DUE GROUNDED A

Cause factors

75/A/FY A
SYSTEMS OTHER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/BX A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GROUNDED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1513. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1513.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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