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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA056

1975-12-16 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, United States Fatal 2 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

BELLANCA 7GCAA · N6339N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

SOLDOTNA

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Wind

190° / 20 kt

Temp

41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000020924

Total time

5,569 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,227

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED TO ANCPT PREDICTABLE UNSAFE ICING COND.

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTING 33K.TAXING COND WERE DTRT.AMGNT FAIL

Cause factors

  • 64/C/16 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 66/J/31 J
    DUAL STUDENT 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 3784. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3784.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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