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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC81DCQ03

1980-10-25 LIBERAL, 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

CASSUTT 3M · N533V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

LIBERAL MUNI

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

125 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,500

Age

35

Investigator remarks

A/C ENCOUNTERED WAKE TURBULENCE DURING AIR RACE.

Cause factors

  • 84/C/1 C
    MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause
  • 64/C/20 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause

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 2808. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2808.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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