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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68A0066

1968-05-10 SCOTT CITY, Missouri, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N113P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

POPENOE CHARLES H AVID FLYER

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

CUYUNA 430R (40 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930726

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0389D

Registrant of record

REAMES WARREN PAUL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N113P Beech H50 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

BEECH H50 · N113P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

CAPE GIRARDEAU

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

070° / 8 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,128 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,165

Age

47

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG

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 3402. Source file NTSB_1968_3_3402.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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