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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC65F0208

1965-05-20 LAKEVILLE, New York, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1140L

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

19810630

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A03D72

Registrant of record

LERMA MICHAEL A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1140L Lake LA-4 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

LAKE LA-4 · N1140L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 15 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

55 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

487

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-PILOT SWERVED TO AVOID FLOATING DEBRIS

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1150. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1150.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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