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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75AA071

1975-03-27 DEADHORSE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4860V CURTISS-WRT C-46 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

CURTISS-WRT C-46 · N4860V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Airport

DEADHORSE

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000030240

Total time

17,327 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,403

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UP.GUSTING TO 23K.

Investigator remarks

HIT RWY LIP,R GR SEPARATED.MADE GO ARND & LND GR

Cause factors

64/C/45 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1 0008. Source file NTSB_1975_1_0008.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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