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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC79FGM11

1979-02-03 BUTLER, Pennsylvania, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9261V 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 · N9261V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BUTLER GRAHAM

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

210° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000690072

Total time

1,427 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

736

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PPED.

Investigator remarks

R WING DMGD.FLARED SLTLY HI,ADDED PWR,R WING DRO

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 0406. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0406.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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