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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA003

1973-07-11 BETTLES, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N709FY Cessna U206B Serious

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 U206B · N709FY

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

E

Airport

PROSPECT CREEK

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U206B0671

Total time

2,967 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,634

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARND ATTEMPTED INTO RISING TERRAIN.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30K SHIFTED DURING LDG FLARE. GO

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
82/C/J C
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3 1852. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1852.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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