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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC82FCG14

1981-12-22 OLATHE, Kansas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N990MB Cessna 421C 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

CESSNA 421C · N990MB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

Business

Airport

JOHNSON CTY EXEC

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

310° / 11 kt

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000421C0611

Total time

1,518 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,512

Age

35

Investigator remarks

ELEV CONTROL CABLE TENSION FOUND LESS THAN SPEC.

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
75/A/CC A
SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/47 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/DH J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY Joint cause
82/J/D J
WEATHER SNOW Joint cause
80/J/BB J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY 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 3411. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3411.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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