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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAG54

1974-11-12 PALMER, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CHAMPION 7GCBC · N88052

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

33° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000071474

Total time

132 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

93

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N 180DEG TURN.

Investigator remarks

FLEW INTO FOG TRYING TO FIND CAMP AREA.STALLED I

Cause factors

  • 64/A/08 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 82/J/F J
    WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. 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 4131. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4131.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.