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MKC73AK022

1972-09-19 · CLEARBROOK, Minnesota, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N3034G has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER PA-28-181, built 1978), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FORNEY F-1A · N3034G
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
135° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000005728
Total time
712 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,650
Age
48

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/V J
    WEATHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3244. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3244.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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