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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC67F0081

1966-07-03 PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1978Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Year of manufacture

1964 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640310

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A185B3

Registrant of record

MEINERT MATTHEW A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1978Y Mooney 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 20E · N1978Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

GREATER PITTSBURG

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

612 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

900

Age

42

Investigator remarks

GEAR WARNING HORN INOPERATIVE-WARNING LIGHTS OK.

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause
70/J/CL J
AIRFRAME LANDING GEAR WARNING AND INDICATING COMPONENTS 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 1779. Source file NTSB_1966_3_1779.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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