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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC74FER22

1973-11-12 PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1007N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20J

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER A&C (200 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810424

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0080E

Registrant of record

NEWBERG EDGAR T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

VOLMER VJ-22 · N1007N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

P.LAKE SEAPORT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

120° / 8 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000209

Total time

335 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

102

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TERN. LOST CTL IN 90 DEG BANK,CRASHED ON LAWN.

Investigator remarks

PRIOR LAKE,USED FOR WATER LANDINGS. FLEW LOW PAT

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/23 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/06 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE Joint 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 3920. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3920.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.