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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70FAG15

1970-05-01 SEWARD, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8202V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180H

Year of manufacture

1966 · 4 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19660413

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB338D

Registrant of record

CEBULSKI BARRY A

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 · N8202V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051704

Total time

1,885 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

600

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INTO SNOW.

Investigator remarks

TOOK OFF FROM GLACIER,SNOW 18 IN DEEP. L SKI DUG

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/B J
    TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED Joint cause
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING 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 1874. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1874.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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