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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71DAG79

1971-03-21 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N50019

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150H

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680712

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A63C8D

Registrant of record

ROZIER RANDALL S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N50019 Cessna 150H 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 150H · N50019

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BIG LAKE ICESTRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015069014

Total time

1,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

267

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N LAKE USED AS LDG AREA.

Investigator remarks

NOT SKI-EQPD,BROKE THROUGH CRUSTED SNOW ON FROZE

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/A/Y A
TERRAIN OTHER 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 1024. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1024.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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