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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC65F0031

1965-01-04 BEMIDJI, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7020K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-20

Year of manufacture

1950 · 15 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95E5E

Registrant of record

HEUER QUINN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7020K Piper PA-20 None

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

PIPER PA-20 · N7020K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MOBERG

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

30° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,275 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,200

Age

45

Investigator remarks

LANDING MADE ON 6 INCH DEEP CRUSTED SNOW.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BC J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY 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 0381. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0381.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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