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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71IA045

1971-03-11 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N789AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EA VISION EA J100

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AAB206

Registrant of record

DLA FARMS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BOEING 727 · N789AS

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

EB

Airport

WEIN MEMORIAL

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Pilot

Certificate

ZA (ZA)

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT OUTBD CLEVIS ATTACH LUGS.BEAM PENETRATED L WG.

Investigator remarks

NR ATNDNTS,PX NOT RPRTD.LMG ACTUATOR BEAM FAILED

Cause factors

  • 70/A/CA A
    AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/36 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 4 0013. Source file NTSB_1971_4_0013.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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