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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71DAA16

1970-09-10 KOTZEBUE, 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 · N2662Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001805162

Total time

3,540 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,600

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ER. DIDNT DRAG AREA BEFORE LDG.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED ACFT HIT SUBMERGED SANDBAR IN RIV

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 83/C/E C
    TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3664. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3664.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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