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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66D0253

1965-07-18 WEST PLAINS, Missouri, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N57430

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1973

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730515

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7601F

Registrant of record

SWANSON MICHAEL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N57430 Mooney M20E Minor

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 · N57430

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WEST PLAINS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

315° / 25 kt

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Total time

70 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

236

Age

52

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS

Cause factors

64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3576. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3576.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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