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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC67A0034

1966-10-03 NOME, Alaska, United States None 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

CESSNA 180 · N5398D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,611 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,401

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLIGHT SINCE 100 HR-INSP. LANDED ON SLOPING BEACH

Investigator remarks

CARBURETOR FLOAT RUBBED AGAINST BOWL WALL. FIRST

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CG C
    POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
  • 88/C/BA C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BINDING Cause
  • 88/C/47 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER ALIGNMENT/ADJUSTMENT Cause
  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 88/K/88 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
  • 83/K/Y K
    TERRAIN OTHER 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 4357. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4357.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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