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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCG39

1978-06-25 OLATHE, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N72MB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1977 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770222

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9A248

Registrant of record

SWENSON CHUCK

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N72MB Beech A36 Serious

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 A36 · N72MB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

EXECUTIVE JOHNSON

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000E-1010

Total time

109 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,590

Age

59

Investigator remarks

MIXTURE CONTROL NOT IN FULL RICH POSITION

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/99 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL SELECTOR POSITIONED BETWEEN TANKS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/L/21 L
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1682. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1682.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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