NTSB CAROL · Event
Event MKC73AK003
Registry · N7056C
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
AERONCA 7AC
Year of manufacture
1946 · 26 years old at event
Engine
CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19890801
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A96A4E
Registrant of record
KING BERNARD E JR
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
N.AMERICAN SNJ-4 · N7056C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
THIEF RIVER FALLS
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
040° / 8 kt
Temp
72° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000088-12848
Total time
6,291 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
8,020
Age
38
Investigator remarks
LOW LEVEL AEROBATICS.
Cause factors
- 64/A/33 A PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/49 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/14 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING 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 1672.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_1672.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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