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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN80FTG15

1980-08-02 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N734QK Cessna U206G Minor

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 U206G · N734QK

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

330° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20604860

Total time

427 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

959

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DD PERPENDICULAR TO ROWS IN POTATO FLD.

Investigator remarks

HOLE IN AIR DUCT.METAL PART FOUND INSIDE CARB.LN

Cause factors

74/C/CY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2545. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2545.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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