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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68F0363

1967-11-19 WINSTED, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5534Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1965 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650215

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A70D83

Registrant of record

PAUL RICHARD W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5534Q Mooney 20E 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 20E · N5534Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

WINSTED

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

090° / 7 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Total time

543 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

132

Age

43

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 4170. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4170.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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