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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA76FLA53

1976-06-10 PENSACOLA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N65354 Mooney M20C 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 M20C · N65354

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PENSCOLA REGIONAL

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

190° / 11 kt

Temp

89° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002318

Total time

2,891 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

500

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R.

Investigator remarks

IMPROPER PRELOAD TORQUE OF MAIN AND NOSE LDG GEA

Cause factors

70/A/CB A
AIRFRAME NORMAL RETRACTION/EXTENSION ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 2695. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2695.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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