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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI80FER55

1980-07-04 WARREN, Minnesota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10TD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

P&W CANADA JT15D 5 SER

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19910409

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00408

Registrant of record

PRAIRIE AIR LLC

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

CASSUTT 111M · N10TD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000256

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,440

Age

33

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT 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 2902. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2902.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.