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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Mooney M20E · Banning, CA · April 18, 1981

Date
April 18, 1981 · 00:02 local
Place
Banning, CA
Phase of flight
Normal Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N6947U
NTSB investigation
NTSBLAX81FA075
Reported as
Mooney M20E
Reported engine
Lycoming IO360A1A
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
214 total35 in this make and model8 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Flew into side of a mountain at night with near zero visibility, fog obscuring mountains.

As the FAA filed it

FLEW INTO SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN AT NIGHT WITH NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY, FOG OBSCURING MOUNTAINS.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.