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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC67D0098

1966-08-07 WELLS, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 140 · N76346

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

PASSER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,211 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

51

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WITH 10 FT CORNSTALKS BORDERING RIGHT SIDE.

Investigator remarks

ROLLING SOD STRIP HAD BADGER HOLES ON LEFT SIDE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 80/L/BI L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION
  • 80/L/BK L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE

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 3109. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3109.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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