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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA076

1974-05-01 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3603R Pilatus PC-6 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

PILATUS PC-6 · N3603R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

RALPH WIEN MEML

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002005

Total time

2,129 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,614

Age

29

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 1197. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1197.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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