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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC81FA029

1981-04-09 GODDARD, Kansas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11SS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DAVIS MICHAEL D PITTS S1=SS

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02B7B

Registrant of record

DAVIS MICHAEL D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N11SS Pitts S-1S 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

PITTS S-1S · N11SS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

ECK

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001933

Total time

170 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,300

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INTO TRRN AT BOTTOM OF MNVR.

Investigator remarks

BGN SPLIT-S MNVR FM APRX 1200-1500FT AGL,MUSHED

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 0765. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0765.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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