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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC81FCD20

1981-06-17 COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5428V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NORTH AMERICAN/AERO CLASSICS P-51D

Year of manufacture

1944 · 37 years old at event

Engine

PKRD-ROLL V1650 SERIES (1490 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990602

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6E2DE

Registrant of record

AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLY MUSEU

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5428V N AMERICAN P-51D 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

N AMERICAN P-51D · N5428V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 35 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-73264

Total time

2,336 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,202

Age

46

Investigator remarks

CROSS WIND GUSTS TO 40KTS.

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint 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 1080. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1080.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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