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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAA07

1970-04-16 BETTLES, 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

PIPER PA-22 · N8757D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-5941

Total time

838 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RX 40FT FRM ROAD.

Investigator remarks

LNDD N ON ROAD BORDERED BY TREES 30-40FT HIGH AP

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/I A
    TERRAIN HIGH 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 1837. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1837.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.