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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC66F0258

1965-09-26 CARROLLTON, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N79369 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 · N79369

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CARROLLTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

230 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

562

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG GR-MALFUNCTION FOR UNDETERMINED REASON.

Investigator remarks

ACFT HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN 2 PREVIOUS GR UP LDGS.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 3743. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3743.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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