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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71DAG34

1970-08-31 MCCARTHY, 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 · N5305D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EY

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050203

Total time

3,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

24,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CANYON. CRASH LNDD FLOAT EQPD ACFT ON CANYON RIM.

Investigator remarks

FLYING OVER CANYON,MTN TERRAIN.PULLED DOWN INTO

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/A/M A
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 3593. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3593.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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