NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC71FAA03
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
TAYLORCRAFT 15A · N6659N
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Temp
55° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000005-14001
Total time
748 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,800
Age
43
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
WRECKAGE PRIOR REMOVAL TO KENANA FOR TEARDOWN.
Investigator remarks
LANDED ON TUNDRA IN REMOTE AREA.ENG STOLEN FROM
Cause factors
- 74/C/KA C POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
- 83/B/F B TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
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 3007.
Source file
NTSB_1970_3_3007.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- arXiv 2026 · arXiv preprint
Buffet Alleviation via Linear Stability Adjoint
Transonic buffet, self--sustained shock and shear--layer oscillations, imposes hard limits on the cruise envelope of modern transport aircraft, and avoiding it is a primary design driver.
- arXiv 2026 · arXiv preprint
Transonic Buffet Modeling via Invariant Manifolds
In transonic flow over aircraft wings, shock-boundary-layer interactions can give rise to transonic buffet, which degrades maneuverability through unsteady aerodynamic loads.
- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Aeroelastic Reduced-Order Model Differential Equations in Transonic Buffeting Flow
Numerical simulation of the transonic shock buffet phenomenon remains a formidable challenge due to its inherent nonlinear and unsteady characteristics.
- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Compact representation of transonic airfoil buffet flows with observable-augmented machine learning
Transonic buffet presents time-dependent aerodynamic characteristics associated with shock, turbulent boundary layer, and their interactions.
- arXiv 2023 · arXiv preprint
Experimental investigation on the turbulent wake flow in fully-established transonic buffet conditions
The transonic flight regime is often dominated by transonic buffet, a highly unsteady and complex shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction involving major parts of the flow field.
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