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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC77FA036

1977-08-30 HENNING, Minnesota, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 172M · N64190

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

HENNING MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000065075

Total time

1,240 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

134

Age

40

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/66 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN 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 3053. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3053.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.