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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC82DA002

1981-10-12 ST LOUIS, Missouri, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8142N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A36

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-550 SER (280 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930105

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB1AE3

Registrant of record

SMITH DENNIS A TRUSTEE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BOEING 727 · N8142N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Airport

LAMBERT-ST LOUIS

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018966

Total time

48,749 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

10,216

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ION AREA ON R SIDE OF TAXILANE IN CONGESTED AREA.

Investigator remarks

R WING TIP STRUCK DUMP TRUCK PARKED NR CONSTRUCT

Cause factors

  • 65/A/54 A
    COPILOT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/38 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Joint cause
  • 88/J/05 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CREW COORDINATION-POOR 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 1 0021. Source file NTSB_1981_1_0021.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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