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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70AA088

1970-06-15 NEW STUYAHOK, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2845D Grumman G-21A 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

GRUMMAN G-21A · N2845D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Airport

NEW STUYAHOK

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

230° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000B-112

Total time

4,594 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,000

Age

39

Investigator remarks

STRIP LOOKED SOFT SO PLT LND IN RIVER.

Cause factors

64/A/11 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO RETRACT LANDING GEAR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/03 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1 0014. Source file NTSB_1970_1_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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