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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74DAG21

1973-08-17 NINILCHIK, Alaska, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40684

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4-210C

Year of manufacture

1973 · 0 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-360 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4C678

Registrant of record

JOHNSON JEFF

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

MAULE M4210C · N40684

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

090° / 20 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051433

Total time

978 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,400

Age

36

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. GUSTING TO 30K.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/25 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
  • 64/B/62 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
  • 80/L/BY L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

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 2855. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2855.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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