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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAG23

1974-08-10 DILLINGHAM, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N40319

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4-220C

Year of manufacture

1972 · 2 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6V 350 SERIES (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19720210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4BA63

Registrant of record

MCEEWEN DAVID L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N40319 Maule M4220C 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

MAULE M4220C · N40319

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

DILLINGHAM STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002049C

Total time

516 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

288

Age

34

Investigator remarks

LND LONG TO AVOID PUDDLE AT RWY MID POINT.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
80/L/BA L
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
88/K/DF K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL GROUND-WATER-LOOP-SWERVE 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 3 2553. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2553.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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