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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DCQ09

1971-07-19 HOWARD, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7607E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172N

Year of manufacture

1978

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA44DA

Registrant of record

POWERBELT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7607E Bellanca 14-193 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

BELLANCA 14-193 · N7607E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004109

Total time

1,237 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APSED FOR UNDETERMINED REASON. HAD PUMPED GR DOWN.

Investigator remarks

PLT SMELLED SMOKE. LND ON COUNTY ROAD. R GR COLL

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/1/39 1
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Subordinate · 1

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 2721. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2721.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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