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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69D0125

1969-03-28 BETTLES, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1077H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 15AC

Year of manufacture

1948 · 21 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560301

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0220A

Registrant of record

HADLEY EVERETT F

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1077H Aeronca 15AC None

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

AERONCA 15AC · N1077H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,763 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

244

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UEL LINE RESTRICTED GRAVITY FUEL FLOW.

Investigator remarks

T/O FROM SNOW COVERED LAKE.FOREIGN MATERIAL IN F

Cause factors

84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1298. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1298.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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