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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI81FA010

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

Registry · N969MA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 200

Year of manufacture

1981

Seats / Engines

11 seats · 2 engines

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD7EA9

Registrant of record

VENABLE GROUP 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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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