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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCG17

1972-11-08 VERSAILLES, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3353X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1966 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660330

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3AB39

Registrant of record

BAIN JONATHAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3353X Mooney M-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 M-20E · N3353X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

OTTEN MEM

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

634 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

234

Age

39

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/71 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 3051. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3051.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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