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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76FCD17

1975-10-28 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, United States Serious 1 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

CESSNA 210A · N9424X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

COUNCIL BLUFFS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000210-57724

Total time

1,180 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,542

Age

55

Investigator remarks

L FUEL TANK FOUND DRY,R FULL.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/25 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF

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 3104. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3104.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.