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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79DCQ04

1978-11-27 LIBERAL, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2002W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH V35

Year of manufacture

1965 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651025

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A194B6

Registrant of record

WILLIAMS HOWARD DALE II

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2002W Beech V35 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

BEECH V35 · N2002W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B4

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

LIBERAL MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-7988

Total time

1,850 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,700

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NTENANCE.MINOR DMG TO N60005.

Investigator remarks

OTR ACFT,BE-76,N60005,BEING REPOSITIONED FOR MAI

Cause factors

68/A/K0 A
PERSONNEL PILOT OF OTHER AIRCRAFT 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 2117. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2117.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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