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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69D0093

1968-08-30 SEWARD, 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 180A · N9792B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,161 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,514

Age

37

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. HIT BRIDGE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/06 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/H J
    TERRAIN GLASSY WATER 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 3 4374. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4374.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.