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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCG41

1978-07-01 OLATHE, Kansas, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N666KC Piper PA-28 Minor

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

PIPER PA-28 · N666KC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOHNSON CO EXEC

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7625160

Total time

1,952 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

61

Age

55

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTS 18KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/62 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1200. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1200.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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