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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC70FDD15

1970-05-22 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, 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

CALLAIR B-1A · N7200V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

MONTGOMERY

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

040° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010000

Total time

764 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

16,580

Age

51

Investigator remarks

L WING HIT POLE APRX 25FT HI.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2617. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2617.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.