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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAG95

1975-06-11 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N2544B Convair L-13 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

CONVAIR L-13 · N2544B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

TALKEETNA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

62° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000047-378

Total time

856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,939

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EPOSITION THEM BFOR LDG. LOST CTL.

Investigator remarks

PLT POS RUDDER PEDALS FWD IN CRUISE. FORGOT TO R

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/L/03 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE
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 3 1710. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1710.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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