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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FDM46

1971-02-23 WACONIA, Minnesota, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N50402 Cessna 150H Minor

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 150H · N50402

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

320° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015069276

Total time

1,505 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

152

Age

26

Investigator remarks

UN CLB ABV PWR LINES ATMPT FLT BLO WIRES.

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
64/B/54 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE
84/K/7 K
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint factor

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 0042. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0042.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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