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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76DER47

1976-01-24 BUFFALO, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4546C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1953 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560306

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A58425

Registrant of record

HOFFMAN GREGORY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4546C Cessna 170B 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

CESSNA 170B · N4546C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

BUFFALO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 17 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000170-25490

Total time

1,467 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

198

Age

43

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 25 KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
80/L/BD L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0109. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0109.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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