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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79FTK03

1978-12-03 RAPID CITY, South Dakota, United States Serious 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150M · N63067

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

RAPID CITY REGNL

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA1A-0148

Total time

1,287 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

61

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG QUIT IN FLT,STARTED ENG.HIT N7507S,SUBST DMG.

Investigator remarks

SLEPT IN PLANE AT RAMP OVERNIGHT,AWOKE THINKING

Cause factors

64/C/08 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause
88/C/11 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ Cause
68/L/C0 L
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3326. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3326.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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