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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC76FER74

1976-07-01 FAIRMONT, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4600

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRISWOLD VOLMER SPORTSMAN 22

Year of manufacture

1971 · 5 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-290-D (130 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130722

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A59BF3

Registrant of record

STEVENS MIKE R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4600 Volmer VJ-22 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

VOLMER VJ-22 · N4600

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

100° / 7 kt

Temp

79° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000046

Total time

123 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

234

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GMENTS OF PROP DMGD WINGS,AILERON.

Investigator remarks

CARB AIR BOX SEPD FRM ENG,STRUCK PUSHER PROP.FRA

Cause factors

74/A/CL A
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/A/FA A
POWERPLANT BLADES Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/D A
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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 2913. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2913.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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