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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DCG67

1972-06-18 SEDALIA, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

TAYLORCRAFT DC-65 · N47587

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005988

Total time

1,944 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

50

Age

42

Investigator remarks

HAD LNDD TO CHECK ACFT. GRASS APRXLY 18 IN HIGH.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/D A
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 1967. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1967.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.