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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FGM04

1971-07-21 MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2988L Mooney M20F 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 M20F · N2988L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

P-MONROEVILLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000670347

Total time

1,043 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

520

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D.

Investigator remarks

ACFT T/D APRX 1100FT BEYOND RWY THRESHOLD,BOUNCE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/46 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 2618. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2618.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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