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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FKM05

1971-09-08 MONROE, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N119V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MONOCOUPE 90

Year of manufacture

1932 · 39 years old at event

Engine

LAMBERT R266 (90 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700818

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A04F7D

Registrant of record

HISTORIC AIRCRAFT RESTORATION MUSEUM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N119V Monocoupe 90A 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

MONOCOUPE 90A · N119V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000628

Total time

1,312 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

560

Age

45

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 3649. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3649.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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