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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73AA054

1973-06-26 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5360J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172N

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6C918

Registrant of record

FLY MONTANA LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5360J HILLER ACFT UH-12E 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

HILLER ACFT UH-12E · N5360J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D5

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002113

Total time

5,042 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,180

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ROLLED OFF BACKWARDS.PREV FLT ABORTED,ENG OVRHEAT.

Investigator remarks

ENG CUT OUT,PLT TRIED TO LND ON MTN LEDGE. ACFT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 1859. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1859.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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