- Date
- April 4, 1964
- Place
- Mt Olive, NC · MT OLIVE, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6738UMooney M20D
- Status
- Completed · report August 25, 1964
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 184601
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0802 64/4/4 MT OLIVE NC MOONEY M20D CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 41, 61 TOTAL TIME - 2335 N6738U PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MT OLIVE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ICE-CARBURETOR PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE ENGINE TURNED FREELY WITH COMPRESSION ON ALL CYLINDERS
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6738U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20D
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Mt Olive
N6738URegistration cancelled Jul 19, 2021 · Mooney M20DAirframe modelMooney M20DEngine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.