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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA063

1976-01-27 MCCARTHY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6443X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180D

Year of manufacture

1961 · 15 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A876EE

Registrant of record

GIBBINS BRETT S

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

CESSNA 180 · N6443X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

MCCARTHY

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018050943

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,000

Age

42

Investigator remarks

RWY COND,1 IN SNOW OVR GLAZE ICE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/79 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
  • 80/L/BB L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY
  • 80/L/BC L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY

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 0043. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0043.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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