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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC68F0367

1968-02-04 AUGUSTA, Maine, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7874V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1964 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19641008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAAD7F

Registrant of record

HAGUE COLLIN J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7874V 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 · N7874V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

AUGUSTA STATE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

877 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

210

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TINATION.

Investigator remarks

PROP,TAIL SKID STRUCK RNWY. CONTINUED FLT TO DES

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY 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 0179. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0179.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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