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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71AA038

1971-01-30 SEWARD, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 · N8215V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

PVT STRIP

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051757

Total time

3,442 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,465

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AB HIT SNW BNK.

Investigator remarks

PLT SWERVED ACFT TO AVOID DOG ON RWY,R HRZNTL ST

Cause factors

  • 84/A/7 A
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 84/A/3 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ANIMAL(S) ON RUNWAY/TAXIWAY/RAMP Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BD J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW WINDROWS 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 3699. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3699.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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