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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FER12

1979-11-24 MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5461B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ANDREW RICHARDSON A60S KOALA

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190828

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6F0B3

Registrant of record

ANGER FRANK J

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 · N5461B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CRYSTAL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

22° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015283876

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

102

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NKS.

Investigator remarks

ICE CRYSTALS FOUND IN FUEL STRAINER,BOTH FUEL TA

Cause factors

  • 84/C/G C
    MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
  • 88/C/70 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-IN FUEL Cause
  • 83/B/B B
    TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3089. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3089.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.