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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68A0070

1968-06-07 KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8513R Bellanca 14-193 Minor

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

BELLANCA 14-193 · N8513R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

FAIRFAX

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

130° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

1,140 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

883

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ER BANK IN SHALLOW WATER.

Investigator remarks

PLT SWITCHED TANKS TOO LATE. LANDED CLOSE TO RIV

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2075. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2075.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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