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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAD05

1975-05-15 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N61272 Cessna 150J 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

CESSNA 150J · N61272

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015070933

Total time

2,833 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

317

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NNUAL INSP COMP DAY BFOR. LND ON BEACH.

Investigator remarks

ROUGH ENG RESULT OF OIL DRAIN PLUG COMING OUT. A

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/DY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
88/C/81 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 0913. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0913.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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