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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67D0074

1966-06-28 KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6786U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20D

Year of manufacture

1963 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630527

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8FCAD

Registrant of record

COWBOY PERSPECTIVE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6786U Mooney M21 None

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 M21 · N6786U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

STATE LINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 6 kt

Temp

77° F

Aircraft history

Total time

805 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,375

Age

31

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY

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 2744. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2744.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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