NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC73FAG57
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
PILATUS PC6BH2 · N2854T
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Night
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — level (EA)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000575
Total time
6,095 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,024
Age
29
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
MISC-FIRE FROM UNDETERMINED SOURCE
Investigator remarks
ACFT BURNED AFTER IMPACT.
Cause factors
- 84/C/J C MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
- 64/B/46 B PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED
- 64/B/07 B PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
- 75/L/AC L SYSTEMS GENERATORS/ALTERNATORS
- 75/L/AM L SYSTEMS PROTECTIVE DEVICES
- 88/L/AL L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CIRCUIT BREAKER POPPED
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 3052.
Source file
NTSB_1972_3_3052.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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