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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FER64

1973-05-26 ELBOW LAKE, Minnesota, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N985X Grumman G-164 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

GRUMMAN G-164 · N985X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

ELBOW LAKE

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000660

Total time

1,008 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,240

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E.LNDD IN A MARSH 1/4MI S OF ARPT.

Investigator remarks

WATER FOUND IN GASCOLATOR,CARB BOWL AND FUEL LIN

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 1492. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1492.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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