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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70AA061

1970-02-24 KENAI, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N978

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310N

Year of manufacture

1968 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19680703

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADA15C

Registrant of record

DESTINATION FLIGHT SOLUTIONS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N978 Sikorsky S-62A Minor

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

SIKORSKY S-62A · N978

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EI

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 8 kt

Temp

39° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000062009

Total time

11,710 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,476

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR REPORTED NOISE COULD BE FOUND.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED HE HEARD A THUMPING NOISE.NO REASON F

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0181. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0181.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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