Atlas / NTSB / ANC69F0006

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69F0006

1968-04-15 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9863M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI T-30

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADC43B

Registrant of record

MILL OF BLACKHORSE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9863M Maule M-4 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

MAULE M-4 · N9863M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

98 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

750

Age

37

Investigator remarks

INNER THROTTLE SHAFT PACKINGS WERE FOUND CUT.

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2017. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2017.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.