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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC73FTK12

1973-03-25 MOBRIDGE, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3028G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO 162

Year of manufacture

2011

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110711

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A32A37

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3028G FORNEY F-1A None

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

FORNEY F-1A · N3028G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005723

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

42

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON FARM RANCH DUE FOG BANK OVR RVR.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause

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 0832. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0832.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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