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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73AA012

1972-08-16 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 U206 · N9101M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Airport

JUNEAU

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

090° / 6 kt

Temp

56° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001501

Total time

1,757 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

11,688

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LT TURN ON SPCL VFR CLNC.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED ACFT FLEW INTO WATER DURING LOW A

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN 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 1248. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1248.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.