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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA063

1974-04-03 ELIM, Alaska, United States None 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

DORNIER DO-28D · N3799

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

ELIM VILLAGE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004005

Total time

1,613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,745

Age

30

Investigator remarks

OVERRAN RWY,HIT SNOW BERM & SNOW MACHINE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/82 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BB J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY 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 0807. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0807.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.