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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC79IA002

1978-11-07 DICKINSON, North Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1WD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 95-A55

Year of manufacture

1961 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19611020

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A001FA

Registrant of record

BUSHCRAFT AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1WD Beech B100 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

BEECH B100 · N1WD

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

DICKINSON MUNI

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000B-67

Total time

2,788 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

28,380

Age

60

Cause factors

64/A/10 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO EXTEND LANDING GEAR 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 5 0018. Source file NTSB_1978_5_0018.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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