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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FA040

1980-06-05 OLATHE, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2323S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS AIRCRAFT LTD PC-12/47E

Year of manufacture

2024

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6E-67XP (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240215

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A212C0

Registrant of record

LEGAL AIR AVIATION SERVICES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2323S Cessna 337B Serious

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 337B · N2323S

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

JOHNSON CO INDSTL

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

190° / 18 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000337-0623

Total time

1,552 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

950

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AUX TKS FLUSHED.BIRDS NEST FOUND IN ACFT ENG COMP.

Investigator remarks

M FUEL TKS EMPTY,FUEL OBSVD DRIPPING FM WGS BFR

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

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 1881. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1881.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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