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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAG12

1970-03-29 ANIAK, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9376H Beech D-17S 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

BEECH D-17S · N9376H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

CINNABAR MINE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

090° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002685

Total time

1,613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,008

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ND.

Investigator remarks

ACFT HIT SNOWBANK AS PWR WAS APPLIED FOR GO AROU

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
80/B/BD B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS

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 1571. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1571.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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