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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73AK054

1973-02-25 MANHATTAN, Kansas, United States Serious 2 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

LEAR JET 24 · N661CP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

CROW WING COUNTY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

130° / 12 kt

Temp

31° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000024-108

Total time

2,120 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,800

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HEN NOSE GR.

Investigator remarks

OVERSHOT TURN TO FINAL. BOTH TIP TANKS HIT RWY,T

Cause factors

  • 64/C/45 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 64/L/82 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND
  • 88/L/22 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
  • 82/L/H L
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0584. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0584.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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