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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73DAG91

1973-05-12 YAKUTAT, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3545D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770121

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3F6B4

Registrant of record

HUDSON GUY G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3545D Cessna 170B 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 170B · N3545D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000027088

Total time

2,236 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

400

Age

29

Investigator remarks

RAN INTO WAVE BREAKING ON BEACH.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/A L
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
83/L/K L
TERRAIN SANDY

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 1531. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1531.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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