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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78DER29

1978-02-12 HINCKLEY, Minnesota, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N50435 Aeronca O-58B Serious

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

AERONCA O-58B · N50435

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000058B5902

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

IA (IA)

Total hours

26

Age

21

Investigator remarks

FLT PHASE UNK.

Cause factors

84/A/8 A
MISCELLANEOUS UNQUALIFIED PERSON OPERATED AIRCRAFT 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 2315. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2315.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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