Skip to content

MKC76AK056

1976-04-28 · WICHITA, Kansas, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N21FE has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BOMBARDIER INC BD-100-1A10, built 2012), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
DASSAULT DA-20 · N21FE
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
E
Airport
MIDCONTINENT
Kind of flying
CJ

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST
Wind
120° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000226
Total time
5,246 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
3,818
Age
31

Investigator remarks

EARTHWORMS ON RUNWAY.

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CE A
    AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BA J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint cause
  • 88/J/92 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS HYDROPLANING ON WET RUNWAY Joint cause
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
  • 88/J/DH J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2358. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2358.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.