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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FCQ36

1978-08-07 LIBERAL, Kansas, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N36EZ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DASSAULT AVIATION FALCON 7X

Year of manufacture

2007

Engine

P&W CANADA PW307A

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 3 engines

Last airworthiness date

20090409

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A40A6F

Registrant of record

GARDEN AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

VARI-EZE · N36EZ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

LIBERAL MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

190° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000278

Total time

52 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

584

Age

41

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2312. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.