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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72FCG18

1971-09-05 RICHMOND, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4644F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P206A

Year of manufacture

1966 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5AB61

Registrant of record

BRENNAN TIMOTHY R TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4644F Cessna 206A 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 206A · N4644F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

LEXINGTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000P206-0244

Total time

792 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

950

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

TURNED OFF RWY TO AVOID DITCH,HIT RETAINING WALL

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION

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 4057. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4057.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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