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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67F0083

1966-07-17 TRIBUNE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N99504 Ercoupe 415-C 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

ERCOUPE 415-C · N99504

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,409 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

15 DEGREE RIGHT TURN.

Investigator remarks

RUDDER CONTROL BELLCRANK SEIZED.PILOT LANDED IN

Cause factors

75/C/CE C
SYSTEMS RUDDER AND RUDDER TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
88/C/80 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LACK OF LUBRICATION-SPECIFIC PART,NOT SYSTEM Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause

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 3077. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3077.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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