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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA035

1973-09-18 BIRCHWOOD, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 150L · N5352Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073252

Total time

983 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

94

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MISC-LOSS OF CONTROL FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

Investigator remarks

CRASHED ON MTN STEEP NOSEDOWN ATT.RCVRD 9/20/73.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/J A
    MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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 3701. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3701.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.