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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FDD20

1971-02-18 ELBOW 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

CESSNA 140 · N76346

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

ELBOW LAKE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010763

Total time

3,268 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

434

Age

31

Investigator remarks

HIT SNOWBANK JUST SHORT OF RWY.

Cause factors

  • 66/C/48 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 83/L/B L
    TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED
  • 88/L/78 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WHITEOUT

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 0703. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0703.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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