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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79IA025

1979-03-22 ST LOUIS, Missouri, United States Minor 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N412EA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPISTREL D O O ALPHA TRAINER

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

ROTAX 912UL2 (80 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4DBF3

Registrant of record

MAVERICK PILOT DEVELOPMENT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 210 · N6153N

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000062924

Total time

70 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,495

Age

23

Investigator remarks

CRANKSHAFT COUNTER WEIGHT PIN CAME OUT.

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AY C
    POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
  • 88/C/BM C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED 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 5 0011. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0011.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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