ANC71FAA03
1970-07-15 · NENANA, Alaska, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- 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).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 3007.
Source file
NTSB_1970_3_3007.txt.
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