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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA095

1976-06-08 PALMER, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5141G

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC S57H

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20050510

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A672CD

Registrant of record

KIEHLE ERIK A

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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-2 · N5141G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

J

Kind of flying

DE

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

250° / 6 kt

Temp

61° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000468

Total time

4,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,670

Age

38

Investigator remarks

UN OUTCLIMB MTN RIDGE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/45 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/71 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISUSED OR FAILED TO USE FLAPS Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1541. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1541.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.