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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FTK37

1978-09-05 PIERRE, South Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2880G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1967 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19671020

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2EE12

Registrant of record

DIXON WALTER G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2880G Champion 7ECA 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

CHAMPION 7ECA · N2880G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Z

Airport

PIERRE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

220° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000457

Total time

1,240 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

349

Age

19

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/80 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2489. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2489.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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