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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FCG52

1979-06-29 GARNETT, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8861L Grumman AA1B 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

GRUMMAN AA1B · N8861L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

GARNETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1B-0361

Total time

2,239 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,828

Age

33

Investigator remarks

WRONG TYPE VALVE KEEPERS INSTALLED.

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/46 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WRONG PART 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 1370. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1370.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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