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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FTG01

1978-10-31 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N757SH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

FLYING LEGEND USA INC TUCANO REPLICA

Year of manufacture

2024

Engine

ROTAX 915 IS (135 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240804

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA35A2

Registrant of record

YAKABE CHRISTOPHER ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 152 · N757SH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

GRAND FORKS

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015279964

Total time

829 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

169

Age

25

Cause factors

  • 64/A/48 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF 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 3060. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3060.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.