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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK72FVW26

1972-03-26 BOULDER CITY, Nevada, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9486V Mooney M20F Minor

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 · N9486V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

BOULDER CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000700047

Total time

864 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

451

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LEG.

Investigator remarks

PAX ADZD WRONG ARPT ELEV.FLEW INTO GND,DOWNWIND

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/62 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE 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 0132. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0132.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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