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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68A0016

1967-08-30 CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8621U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150M

Year of manufacture

1976

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760304

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABD8D3

Registrant of record

TOMSHECK BROTHERS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8621U Cessna 172F Fatal

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 172F · N8621U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SPIRIT OF ST.LUIS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

040° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,687 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

307

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S WERE NOT LIGHTED.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK 40 FT POWER LINES 1000 FT FROM RNWY. POLE

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE 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 2 1096. Source file NTSB_1967_2_1096.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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