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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK71DVW02

1970-07-24 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N74587

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20B

Year of manufacture

1961 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610926

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA08AD

Registrant of record

CURTIS DAVID W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N74587 Mooney M20B 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 M20B · N74587

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

LONE PINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 15 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001895

Total time

2,147 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

334

Age

38

Investigator remarks

STALL WRNG INOP. DOWNDRAFT.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 3135. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3135.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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