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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72DVG42

1972-03-18 MIDDLETOWN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8361E Mooney M-20A 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 M-20A · N8361E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

3B-RANCH STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001539

Total time

1,599 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,140

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N GR.

Investigator remarks

HIT TWO FENCES & A DITCH TAKING OFF NSE GR & R M

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND 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 1259. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1259.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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