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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA070

1974-04-22 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101TA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 421C

Year of manufacture

1977

Engine

P&W PT6A SERIES (500 hp)

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19951018

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00A15

Registrant of record

HATCH HYRUM G

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101TA Piper PA-31 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

PIPER PA-31 · N101TA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

E

Airport

YUKON R ICE STRIP

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

1,472 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,189

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CONDITIONS.

Investigator remarks

ICE STRIP.R GR BROKE THRU ICE.TAXI TOO FAST FOR

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/50 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0805. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0805.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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