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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FTG02

1978-12-11 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N18950

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH C24R

Year of manufacture

1977 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770926

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1653B

Registrant of record

OSGOOD JAMES G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N18950 Beech C24R 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

BEECH C24R · N18950

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

GRAND FORKS INTL

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000MC535

Total time

915 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

830

Age

21

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
80/L/BD L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS

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 3828. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3828.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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