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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69F0023

1968-07-03 KENAI, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N43822

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RANS EMPLOYEE FLYING CLUB RANS S-6ES COYOTE II

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050518

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5438F

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N43822 Taylorcraft BCS12D 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

TAYLORCRAFT BCS12D · N43822

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

KENAI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,131 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

378

Age

19

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E BROKE,END OF ROPE HIT GIRL ON BEACH.

Investigator remarks

STRUCK ROPE SUSPENDED ABOVE BEACH AREA. WHEN ROP

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2411. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2411.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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