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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC68D0040

1967-07-09 BETTLES, 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 · N9201C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CHANDALAR LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,707 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,600

Age

53

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN TIRE BLEW-OUT AFTER BOUNCED LANDING.

Cause factors

  • 65/C/79 C
    COPILOT Cause
  • 70/L/CF L
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES
  • 88/L/BE L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS BURST

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 2328. Source file NTSB_1967_3_2328.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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