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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FCG14

1980-02-29 KANSAS CITY, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6629A Piper PA-23 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

PIPER PA-23 · N6629A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DOWNTOWN

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

040° / 16 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0027-7954026

Total time

825 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,563

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NT FLAT ON LANDING.

Investigator remarks

RUNWAY SURFACE HAD PATCHY SNOW.LEFT MAIN TIRE WE

Cause factors

70/C/CF C
AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
80/L/BD L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS

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 1220. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1220.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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