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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FA033

1979-05-31 ST LOUIS, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N640R Convair 640 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

CONVAIR 640 · N640R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

A4

Airport

LAMBERT

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000332

Total time

39,088 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

8,266

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

T FIRE & HEAT DAMAGED A/C.

Investigator remarks

APU CONTAINING FUEL DROPPED DURING LOADING,CAUGH

Cause factors

68/A/K9 A
PERSONNEL OTHER 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 1 0002. Source file NTSB_1979_1_0002.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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