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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FA008

1977-11-07 EAGLE RIVER, Wisconsin, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5861M Cessna 310P Fatal

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 310P · N5861M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

Marginal VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Business

Airport

EAGLE RIVER MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310P-0161

Total time

1,820 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,019

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARPT.

Investigator remarks

DESCENDED BELOW 800FT MDA,OBSERVED CIRCLING OVER

Cause factors

64/A/26 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/A J
WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
82/J/C J
WEATHER FOG 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 4258. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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