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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC74FCQ37

1974-05-04 NEWTON, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7451R Beech C23 None

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 C23 · N7451R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

NEWTON

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1546

Total time

5 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,500

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TMD REASONS.

Investigator remarks

EMGCY LDG IN MILO FLD.PARTIAL POWER LOSS FOR UND

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 2939. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2939.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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