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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA81FLD47

1981-06-01 TAMPA, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6061Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1965 · 16 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7E013

Registrant of record

THURSTON DAVID H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6061Q 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 · N6061Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

TAMPA INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 9 kt

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000894

Total time

3,242 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,364

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

REEN & SEL VLV DRAIN.

Investigator remarks

WATER & RUST FD IN BENDIX FUEL INJECTOR SERVO SC

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION 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 1236. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1236.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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