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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC70FC014

1970-03-26 GODDARD, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9110T Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N9110T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

WICHITA MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000M-1162

Total time

1,083 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

38

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OFF POS DRG SELECTION.AD70-15-3,JULY 21,1970,CORS

Investigator remarks

FUEL SELECT VALVE,P/N 169-920000-127,BOUND UP IN

Cause factors

68/C/J2 C
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause
74/C/CC C
POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
88/C/BA C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1274. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1274.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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