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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80DCA11

1980-03-13 WEST PLAINS, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N77JT

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6

Year of manufacture

2003

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20030416

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA6788

Registrant of record

DREWRY JAMES D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N77JT Cessna 421 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

CESSNA 421 · N77JT

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

WEST PLAINS MUNI

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000552

Total time

1,550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,144

Age

56

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF 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 3 1211. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1211.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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