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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76FCG12

1975-08-01 KANSAS CITY, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N91703 Cessna 182M 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

CESSNA 182M · N91703

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

FAIRFAX AIRPORT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000182-59876

Total time

2,807 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

199

Age

18

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R PART OF CARB LOOSE.

Investigator remarks

TWO SCREWS THAT SECURE FLOAT VALVE HINGE TO UPPE

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/D B
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION

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 1961. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1961.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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