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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC80FTG02

1979-12-23 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States Serious 1 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

BEECH C35 · N692D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

ED

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GRAND FORKS INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

350° / 6 kt

Temp

25° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D2969

Total time

3,278 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

2,500

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ERVATORS.

Investigator remarks

ACFT STALLED AT 110MPH.ICE FOUND ON WINGS & RUDD

Cause factors

  • 64/A/40 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint cause
  • 88/J/74 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Joint cause

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 3850. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3850.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.