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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75AA022

1974-09-05 SITKA, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N8955L AMER AVCO AA1-B Fatal

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

AMER AVCO AA1-B · N8955L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000AA1B0405

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

90

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ASONS. ONLY DEBRIS FOUND.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT IMPACTED INTO WATER FOR UNDETERMINED RE

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2515. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2515.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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