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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74DAA28

1974-03-15 POINT LAY, Alaska, United States Serious 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

PILATUS PC6BH2 · N350FH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Temp

-20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002008

Total time

1,620 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,000

Age

31

Investigator remarks

MISUSED BETA PROP CTL,INADVERTENTLY FEATHERED.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 64/C/44 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SPONTANEOUS-IMPROPER ACTION 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 0750. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0750.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.