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ANC71AA007

1970-07-28 · PALMER, Alaska, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA 206B · N4884F
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
00TU206-0584

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
400
Age
34

Investigator remarks

STRUCK TREES 80 FT AGL. OBS COULD ONLY HEAR ACFT

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1610. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1610.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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