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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCG22

1978-03-27 SEDALIA, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N12026

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4

Year of manufacture

1963 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-300 SER (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630924

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0566F

Registrant of record

BERNHARDT MICHAEL J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N12026 Maule M-4 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

MAULE M-4 · N12026

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SEDALIA MEMORIAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000038

Total time

1,912 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

501

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 0420. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0420.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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