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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC69F0419

1969-05-03 FOREST LAKE, Minnesota, United States Minor 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

JODEL D-9 · N12075

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

JOURNEYS END

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

91 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

275

Age

43

Investigator remarks

LDG GR LEG UNDERCUT DURING WELDING.

Cause factors

  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 70/C/CF C
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
  • 88/C/AG C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POOR WELD 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 1051. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1051.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.