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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FCA24

1980-07-27 CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5584C Bensen B8M Minor

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

BENSEN B8M · N5584C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

ARROWHEAD

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

340° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000GSC-2

Total time

1 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

200

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IMENTAL VW ENG FAILED.

Investigator remarks

PRESSURE SENSOR, ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION,EXPER

Cause factors

74/C/CI C
POWERPLANT FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 1214. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1214.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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