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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAA03

1970-02-27 NENANA, Alaska, United States None 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 140 · N76452

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

NENANA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 3 kt

Temp

29° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010889

Total time

3,735 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

178

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KI CABLE FAILED. CONT FLT TO DEST. HIT SNOWBANK.

Investigator remarks

T/O MADE FROM FROZEN LAKE.STRUCK SNOW DRIFTS,L S

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CG C
    AIRFRAME SKI ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 88/L/94 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
  • 83/L/F L
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
  • 88/K/AH K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Joint factor

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 1111. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1111.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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