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CHI81FA010

1980-12-06 · RAMSEY, Minnesota, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N969MA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH 200, built 1981), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MITSUBISHI MU-2 · N969MA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EC
Operator type
D
Airport
CRYSTAL
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000408SA
Total time
381 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
4,949
Age
54

Investigator remarks

ICING REPORTED BY ANOTHER PILOT.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3798. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3798.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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