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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75DER46

1975-02-01 HECTOR, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6558U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1962 · 13 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8A2D0

Registrant of record

REED GINA D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6558U Mooney M20C 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 M20C · N6558U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HECTOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002305

Total time

1,432 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

654

Age

35

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
83/K/B K
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED 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 0226. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0226.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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