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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC68F0207

1967-09-02 CRANE LAKE, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5290M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI T40

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6ACC1

Registrant of record

M AND A SAND FARM LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5290M Taylorcraft BC12-D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BC12-D · N5290M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

CRANE LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,449 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

832

Age

70

Investigator remarks

WIND 15 K.GUSTS TO 20.FLOAT EQUIPPED.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3733. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3733.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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