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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68D0142

1967-08-13 LARCHWOOD, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N78009

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 777-224

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

GE GE90-90B

Seats / Engines

400 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19990420

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9300

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N78009 Globe GC-1B 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

GLOBE GC-1B · N78009

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

ZANNGER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Pilot

Certificate

B2 (B2)

Total hours

566

Age

499

Cause factors

64/A/48 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2881. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2881.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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