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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73IA002

1972-07-06 FORT YUKON, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1312V CURTISS-WRT C-46 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

CURTISS-WRT C-46 · N1312V

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

MCCULLOCK STRIP

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 10 kt

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

4,426 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,875

Age

28

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 5 0043. Source file NTSB_1972_5_0043.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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