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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70AA085

1970-06-05 TUNTUTULIAK, Alaska, United States Minor 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 180 · N7932V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

TUNTUTULIAK

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051832

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,605

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APCH. LND IN SOFT GRND TO R OF RWY.

Investigator remarks

SUNLIGHT ON RIVER RESTRICTED PLTS VISIBILITY ON

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/82 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Joint cause
  • 88/J/79 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint cause
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 1047. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1047.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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