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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC71FER65

1971-05-31 BENSON, Minnesota, United States Serious 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 182F · N3604U

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

045° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001825004

Total time

1,075 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

250

Age

23

Investigator remarks

LEAD ACFT,3 PLANE FLT.HIT GND DRG 180DEG TURN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/A A
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/B A
    WEATHER RAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/X A
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY 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 1806. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1806.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.