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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAA08

1970-05-03 PORT HEIDEN, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2145Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA T182T

TCDS

3A13 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Engine

LYCOMING TIO-540-AK1A (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20110907

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1CB7D

Registrant of record

TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N2145Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051245

Total time

2,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

720

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WIND GUSTING TO 50K.

Investigator remarks

STUCK IN SOFT SAND. ADDED PWR TO FREE ACFT. TAIL

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/44 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/A J
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND 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 1954. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1954.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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