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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCJ47

1977-09-22 LINCOLN, Nebraska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N17U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310I

Year of manufacture

1964 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19640508

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A11896

Registrant of record

ACE FLIGHT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N17U Cessna 310A 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 310A · N17U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Z

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

Business

Airport

ARROW

Kind of flying

DZ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000038095

Total time

7,046 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

JURY INDEX PRESUMED.STOLEN ACFT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT FOUND DMGD OFF SIDE OF RWY.DATE OF ACDNT,IN

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/26 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 2716. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2716.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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