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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAA12

1970-05-07 BETTLES, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2645F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182J

Year of manufacture

1965 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19651122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A290E6

Registrant of record

MICHEL JOHN VERNON III

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 182 · N2645F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

BURGESS CAMP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018256745

Total time

830 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,572

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WIDE,SURROUNDED BY TREES,BENDING 15DEG R AT END.

Investigator remarks

RWY,SECTION OF ROAD APRX 2000FT LONG,ABT 40-50FT

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 80/L/BY L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER

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 2132. Source file NTSB_1970_3_2132.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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