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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK76FVM24

1976-02-21 SANTA CRUZ, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2169W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20S

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990525

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1D374

Registrant of record

N2169W LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2169W Beech C23 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

BEECH C23 · N2169W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SKY PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1570

Total time

880 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

134

Age

52

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 25K.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
82/L/J L
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint factor

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_1976_3_0406.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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