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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76FCQ05

1975-08-08 LIBERAL, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6270P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N6270P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

LIBERAL MUNI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1378

Total time

1,545 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

8,347

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OT FOUND.WHEELS DWN LNDG IN PLOWED FLD.

Investigator remarks

NR 3 CYL EXTSV DMG IN PISTON PIN AREA PIN PLUG N

Cause factors

74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 2904. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2904.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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