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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC72DAG64

1971-10-21 WASILLA, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7959L Beech A23A Minor

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

BEECH A23A · N7959L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

BIC LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000M995

Total time

1,723 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

101

Age

29

Investigator remarks

EXHSTD FUEL,CRASH LNDD IN TREES.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 4329. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4329.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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