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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72FCJ60

1972-05-05 AMHERST, Nebraska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N61247 Boeing 75N1 Fatal

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

BOEING 75N1 · N61247

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

SLATER

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Temp

76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-7646

Total time

4,955 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

947

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GLES.

Investigator remarks

POSSIBLY LOST CTL DUMPING LOAD.WASNT WEARING GOG

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/G J
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING Joint cause
88/J/24 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD Joint cause

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 1925. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1925.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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