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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC70AK062

1970-05-19 SIOUX CITY, Iowa, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N139K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR20

Year of manufacture

2016

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360-ES (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20161116

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A09D81

Registrant of record

SPECTRUM AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N139K Beech E18S 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 E18S · N139K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

GRAHAM

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

080° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-188

Total time

7,468 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,075

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND FEATH. INVEST SHOWED NO ENG MALFUNCTION.

Investigator remarks

IN FLT FIRE FROM UNDETERMINED SOURCE. L PROP FOU

Cause factors

84/C/I C
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 1199. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1199.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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