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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76DER34

1975-10-09 CALEDONIA, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41112

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3F-65

Year of manufacture

1941 · 34 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 4AC176B SER (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560326

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4DA6D

Registrant of record

STORLIE CHRIS A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N41112 Piper J-3 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

PIPER J-3 · N41112

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

HOUSTON COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007758

Total time

4,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,220

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RSHOT AREA.

Investigator remarks

PLT SELECTED SHORT SOD AREA BECAUSE OF XWIND,OVE

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3161. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3161.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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