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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73DAA06

1972-08-12 BETTLES, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4708Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185E

Year of manufacture

1966 · 6 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19661008

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5C499

Registrant of record

COLE BRENT R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4708Q Cessna A185E 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

CESSNA A185E · N4708Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000185-1162

Total time

925 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

917

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DE.

Investigator remarks

DRAINED TANKS PRIOR TO FLT.CRASHED ONTO ROCK SLI

Cause factors

88/C/87 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 2304. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2304.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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