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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCG48

1978-07-17 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3075Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 210N

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790209

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A33C71

Registrant of record

AIR EAGLE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3075Y Cessna 182E 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

CESSNA 182E · N3075Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

JOHNSON CNTY EXEC

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018254075

Total time

3,072 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,200

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LY SEPD.AIR DUCT SEAL(AD77-4-5) MISSING.

Investigator remarks

FLEX BOOT BETWEEN S DUCT & CARB HEAT BOX PARTIAL

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/BJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COLLAPSED Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 3323. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3323.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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