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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC72DAG48

1971-09-06 SKWENTNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4653A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180

Year of manufacture

1956 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5AEF0

Registrant of record

KUZINA RONALD E

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

CESSNA 180 · N4653A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000032250

Total time

2,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

580

Age

24

Investigator remarks

TKOF FROM GRAVEL BAR.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3642. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3642.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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