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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71AA054

1971-04-03 ANIAK, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N91399

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180H

Year of manufacture

1969 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690613

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACA585

Registrant of record

COPPER RIVER AIRMOTIVE LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N91399 Cessna 180H 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

CESSNA 180H · N91399

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

ANIAK

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000052069

Total time

815 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,230

Age

39

Investigator remarks

HIT SNOWMOBILE CROSSING RWY.

Cause factors

68/A/K5 A
PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0308. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0308.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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