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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA079

1976-04-04 BELUGA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2141F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206

Year of manufacture

1965 · 11 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200806

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1CADF

Registrant of record

HILL HENRY M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2141F Cessna U206 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

CESSNA U206 · N2141F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0004206-0341

Total time

2,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,600

Age

25

Investigator remarks

BROKE THRU CRUSTED SNOW.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/A/C A
TERRAIN ICY Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1330. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1330.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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