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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79DER39

1979-05-21 GRAND RAPIDS, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N112GC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180J

Year of manufacture

1973 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19731129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0343A

Registrant of record

SKYWAGON VENTURES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N112GC Cessna 180J 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 180J · N112GC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

LILY LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052387

Total time

768 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,215

Age

61

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED.

Cause factors

64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF 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 1073. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1073.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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