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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73AA008

1972-07-24 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4747S DEHAVILLAND DHC-2 None

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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-2 · N4747S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001142

Total time

4,508 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,070

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,NOT RCVRD.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQPD,LDG IN CHANNEL,HEAVY SWELLS.ACFT SANK

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/G J
TERRAIN ROUGH WATER Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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 3295. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3295.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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