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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74FAA24

1973-12-20 FAIRBANKS, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4704V Convair L-13 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

CONVAIR L-13 · N4704V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

METRO FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000047-387

Total time

365 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,090

Age

47

Investigator remarks

AILERON CTL JAMMED FOR UNDET REASON.

Cause factors

75/C/CA C
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/77 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH 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 3915. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3915.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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