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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76DCG93

1976-07-28 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1580W Beech B55 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 B55 · N1580W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC1443

Total time

109 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

252

Age

37

Investigator remarks

BOTH PROP TIPS & INBOARD RIBS OF WING DMGD.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/62 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 2778. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2778.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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