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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC68A0016

1967-08-23 NORTHWAY, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9421Y Beech N35 Fatal

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 N35 · N9421Y

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time

1,160 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

540

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D W/CARBON AND BURNED OIL,FORCING OIL FROM ENGINE.

Investigator remarks

RECOVERY DATE-08-25-67.CRANKCASE BREATHER CLOGGE

Cause factors

88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
64/B/04 B
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS
88/J/AR J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARBON DEPOSITS Joint cause
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN

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 0875. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0875.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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