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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79DCG37

1979-04-09 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N67845

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-924ER

Year of manufacture

2015

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-7B27E

Seats / Engines

191 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20150218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8FC72

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

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

CESSNA 152 · N67845

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

JOHNSON COUNTY

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

080° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015282054

Total time

83 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

41

Age

38

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTING 12K.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 0386. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0386.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.