NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MKC80FA034
Registry · N22EL
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 501
Year of manufacture
1977 · 3 years old at event
Engine
P&W CANADA JT15D-1
Seats / Engines
8 seats · 2 engines
Last airworthiness date
19771130
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A1DF17
Registrant of record
MUSTANG JETS 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
PITTS S2S · N22EL
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
Business
Airport
CEDAR AIR PARK
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
320° / 10 kt
Temp
64° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000001003
Total time
143 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,324
Age
44
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
CMPLTD 19 OF 25,ENTERED GENTLE GLIDE,STEEPENED.
Investigator remarks
PERFORMING SERIES OF HIGH G MANEUVERS,NEG & POS.
Cause factors
- 84/A/I A MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 1207.
Source file
NTSB_1980_3_1207.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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