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MKC73FTK12

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

N3028G has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA AIRCRAFT CO 162, built 2011), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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