Atlas / NTSB / MKC79FCD06

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FCD06

1978-12-15 DES MOINES, Iowa, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6376Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20F

Year of manufacture

1967 · 11 years old at event

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19670727

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85AF6

Registrant of record

MCCALLSON BAILEY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6376Q Mooney M-20 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

MOONEY M-20 · N6376Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

DES MOINES MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00M20F670459

Total time

2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

622

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AFT TO THROTTLE LEVER.

Investigator remarks

NO BOLT,P/N AN3-7,CONNECTING THROTTLE CONTROL SH

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/90 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MISSING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3618. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3618.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.