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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FCG41

1971-01-15 BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8763A Beech A35 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 A35 · N8763A

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

EAST KANSAS CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

020° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-2188

Total time

1,850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

605

Age

28

Investigator remarks

PLT REJECTED GO-AROUND CONTINUED LDG.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0757. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0757.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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