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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FCG34

1979-03-27 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8381D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH J35

Year of manufacture

1958 · 21 years old at event

TCDS

3A15 · BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP NKA TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580207

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB7891

Registrant of record

BITIKOFER MAGDALENA B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8381D Beech J35 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 J35 · N8381D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HEART

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

100° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D5468

Total time

2,189 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

600

Age

37

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH SIGN.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/L/DH L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY

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 0384. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0384.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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