NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC75AA043
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
PIPER PA-23 · N5308Y
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
Z
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
DD
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000272381
Total time
3,500 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
4,765
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ARND DUE OBSCURED MTN PASS.
Investigator remarks
FLEW INTO SNOWFLD NR TOP OF RIDGE AFTER TURNING
Cause factors
- 64/A/52 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/78 A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WHITEOUT Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 82/J/A J WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
- 82/J/D J WEATHER SNOW Joint cause
- 83/J/I J TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
- 83/J/B J TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED 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 3769.
Source file
NTSB_1974_3_3769.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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