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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FCD13

1979-03-10 WELLSBURG, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3613N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M-20G

Year of manufacture

1967 · 12 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A412D1

Registrant of record

BRADBURY KEVIN EARL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3613N Mooney M-20G 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-20G · N3613N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680011

Total time

3,475 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

163

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN

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 0331. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0331.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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