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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC75FER25

1974-09-28 BAUDETTE, Minnesota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8443 RAND KR-1 Fatal

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

RAND KR-1 · N8443

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

BAUDETTE

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000RB-77

Total time

1 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

533

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LE MAG.ARCING FOUND IN DIST BLOCK CAVITIES.

Investigator remarks

ACFT NOT CERTIFICATED.VW-1600 ENG EQPD WITH SING

Cause factors

74/C/BA C
POWERPLANT MAGNETOS Cause
88/C/AM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ARCING Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
64/L/20 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.

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 3897. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3897.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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