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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC70DCQ02

1970-01-09 SALINA, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N79903 Cessna 172K 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

CESSNA 172K · N79903

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FARM STRIP

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017258237

Total time

249 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

358

Age

53

Investigator remarks

NOSE GR CAUGHT PHONE WIRES.

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 0261. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0261.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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