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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC72DER22

1971-09-17 BEMIDJI, Minnesota, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N51228 Cessna 150J 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 150J · N51228

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BEMIDJI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

310° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015069853

Total time

1,428 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

2,557

Age

34

Investigator remarks

CARB FLOAT STUCK IN UP POS. GR HIT TREE STUMP.

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/CQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STICKING Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
88/K/91 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING 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 1869. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1869.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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