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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FCG40

1971-01-20 KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N84768 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 · N84768

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

FAIRFAX

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017258608

Total time

410 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

600

Age

28

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 40K.

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 0514. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0514.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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