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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78DCD01

1977-10-05 DES MOINES, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3EM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P210N

Year of manufacture

1981

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810701

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31B10

Registrant of record

3EM LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3EM Beech B33 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

BEECH B33 · N3EM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DES MOINES MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CD-508

Total time

2,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

810

Age

46

Investigator remarks

TIRE WAS FLAT OR WENT FLAT DURING LANDING.

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/CF J
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Joint cause
88/J/95 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Joint 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 2445. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2445.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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