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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA80DLD72

1980-06-07 MERRITT ISLAND, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9234M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1966 · 14 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660617

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACCC3F

Registrant of record

BARTON GARY W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9234M 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 · N9234M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

MERRITT ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001189

Total time

3,132 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

294

Age

28

Investigator remarks

HIT PWR LNS DRG FORCED LNDG ON ROAD.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1583. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1583.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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