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OAK72DVG42

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

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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