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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event OAK77DVG50

1977-07-14 AUBURN, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7044V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20C

Year of manufacture

1976 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-360-A1D (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760430

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A96662

Registrant of record

MCARDLE LESA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7044V Mooney M20C 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 M20C · N7044V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

AUBURN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 9 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000020-1202

Total time

739 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,061

Age

29

Investigator remarks

T/D NOSEWHEEL FIRST,PORPOSED.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
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 1789. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1789.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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