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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77DCG16

1977-03-03 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N52367

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SKYSTAR ACFT CO KITFOX VIXEN

Engine

SUBARU EA-81 (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20141021

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6975D

Registrant of record

JANTZI REUBEN B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 182 · N52367

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

JOHNSON COUNTY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018262555

Total time

1,143 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,940

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLETED

Investigator remarks

FIREWALL DAMAGE DISCOVERED AFTER DUAL FLIGHT COM

Cause factors

  • 64/A/25 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 0371. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0371.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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