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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77FA014

1977-02-17 SIOUX CITY, Iowa, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5694K Beech S-35 Fatal

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 S-35 · N5694K

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MUNICIPAL

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D7626

Total time

2,093 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,510

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT MIDDLE MARKER ON NIGHT VFR APPROACH

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT CONTACTED POWER LINE POLE 25 FEET HIGH

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause

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 0256. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0256.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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