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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70F0022

1969-08-22 YAKUTAT, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N96204 Taylorcraft BL-12 None

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

TAYLORCRAFT BL-12 · N96204

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

YAKUTAT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000008504

Total time

3,291 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,500

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RALLELS RNWY.L WING HIT TREE ON BANK OF DITCH.

Investigator remarks

LANDED ON WATER IN NARROW DRAINAGE DITCH THAT PA

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/C/G C
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING 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 3606. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3606.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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