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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X4118

1964-09-23 SPRINGERVILL, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6940U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20E

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640420

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A93BFD

Registrant of record

NEWBY ADAM M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6940U Mooney MK21 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 MK21 · N6940U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

113

Age

20

Cause factors

64/A/12 A
PILOT IN COMMAND RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2998. Source file NTSB_1964_3_2998.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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