Mooney M21 N5778Q

14 February 1971 · North Shore, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 14 February 1971 at about 15:00 local time, a Mooney M21 registered N5778Q was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near North Shore, California, United States. 4 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 14 February 1971 at 15:00
Classification: Accident
Location: North Shore, California, United States
Nearest airport: North Shore Arpt
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Mooney M21
Registration: N5778Q
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Monterey, Calif → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0830

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
4	0	0	0	4

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ACTUATING LEVER, MOONEY P/N5059, FAILED IN WELD HEAT AFFECTED ZONE.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-0830, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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