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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FCQ23

1972-12-26 BENTON, Kansas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6699

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-9A

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050906

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8D93B

Registrant of record

JCMC INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEARD-PARKR MINI · N6699

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BENTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

280° / 6 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

183

Age

37

Investigator remarks

5 MIN IN TYPE.VOLKSWAGEN ENG

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/31 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3870. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3870.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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