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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77DER37

1977-04-25 ELBOW LAKE, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N92619 Cessna A188B 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 A188B · N92619

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00018802068T

Total time

443 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,250

Age

47

Investigator remarks

TKOF FROM HWY.AVOIDING ON-COMING TRUCK.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/7 A
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0734. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0734.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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