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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC74AK030

1973-12-12 CABOOL, Missouri, United States Fatal 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

BEECH A45 · N12271

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Business

Airport

CABOOL MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-33323

Total time

2,313 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

300

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

L VFR CLNC OUT OF CTL ZONE.

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE 12/13/74.PLT RQSTD AND RCVD SPECIA

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 3637. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3637.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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