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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67D0486

1966-08-19 WEST PLAINS, Missouri, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150 · N6830F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

456 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,577

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UPPORTING POWERLINES FROM THE PILOTS VIEW.

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED FORCED LANDING. TREES OBSCURED POLES S

Cause factors

  • 88/C/85 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
  • 64/B/15 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
  • 66/B/30 B
    DUAL STUDENT
  • 88/K/79 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint factor

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 4281. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4281.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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