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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC66F0067

1965-11-16 SITKA, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N96370 Taylorcraft BCS12D Minor

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

TAYLORCRAFT BCS12D · N96370

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 6 kt

Temp

36° F

Aircraft history

Total time

1,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

136

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-AIRFRAME FAILURE OF AN UNDETERMINED NATURE

Investigator remarks

WRECKAGE SANK IN 400 FOOT DEEP WATER-NOT RECVRD

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
82/L/K L
WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR
88/L/88 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER

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 3245. Source file NTSB_1965_3_3245.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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