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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCA24

1973-05-17 CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N936MD Cessna 310C Minor

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 310C · N936MD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SPIRIT OF ST.LOUI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035889

Total time

2,217 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,055

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INFLT NOTED LOW FUEL,MISJUDGED,CONT FLT.HIT ANT.

Investigator remarks

FUEL SVC RQSTD,ACFT NOT REFUELED.PLT DID NOT CK.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
88/C/48 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILURE OF TWO OR MORE ENGINES Cause
68/L/D8 L
PERSONNEL OTHER

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 1225. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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