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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72AK047

1972-02-02 BISMARCK, North Dakota, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N57CC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FISHER FLYING PRODUCTS CLASSIC

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

HIRTH F30 (80 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20001117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A74C45

Registrant of record

WHITLOCK ROBERT S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N57CC Beech D18S Serious

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

BEECH D18S · N57CC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000A-277

Total time

8,550 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,326

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

JDENT,FELL ASLEEP.ACFT FLEW INTO GND.

Investigator remarks

AUTO PLT ON,ALT HOLD OFF.PLT,ALSO A FULL TIME ST

Cause factors

64/A/65 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/62 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE 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 2126. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2126.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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