NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC72AA018
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
MAULE M4210C · N9817M
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
180° / 12 kt
Temp
25° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000010120
Total time
1,100 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
6,000
Age
39
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
SWEPT ACFT WITH SURVIVAL GR DWNSTRM.ACFT NOT RCVRD
Investigator remarks
LNDD ON ISLE,ROLLED OVR BANK INTO RIVER.CURRENT
Cause factors
- 64/C/29 C PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
- 64/C/04 C PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
- 64/C/79 C PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
- 82/L/A L WEATHER LOW CEILING
- 82/L/D L WEATHER SNOW
- 83/L/B L TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED
- 83/K/G K TERRAIN ROUGH WATER Joint factor
- 88/K/88 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor
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 4421.
Source file
NTSB_1971_3_4421.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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