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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80DCG15

1980-03-12 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N7317A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

JOHNSON CO EXEC

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000210-63560

Total time

355 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

887

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R BOOT.ICE ON L WING.

Investigator remarks

SCUFF MARK/HOLE OVR PRESS INLET TO L WING DE-ICE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 75/C/DA C
    SYSTEMS WING ANTI-ICING,DE-ICING SYSTEMS Cause
  • 88/C/AJ C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
  • 88/C/74 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Cause
  • 82/L/F L
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC.

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 1194. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1194.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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