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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC67A0054

1967-01-17 MCGRATH, Alaska, 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

DOUGLAS DC-3C · N5

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

G

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

16,579 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,933

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED DUE TO EXPECTED TURB.

Investigator remarks

PAX WERE TWICE ADVISED TO KEEP SEAT BELTS FASTEN

Cause factors

  • 65/A/05 A
    COPILOT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/K A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/K4 A
    PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/12 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/93 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN OFF 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 2 0043. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.