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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA098

1976-06-11 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N39AL

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LANSING ALAN C LANSING ACRO SPORT 2

Year of manufacture

2005

Engine

LYCOMING O-320-B2A (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20200522

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4807B

Registrant of record

MCENTIRE DAVID J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N39AL Bell 206B 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

BELL 206B · N39AL

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

DQ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000841

Total time

3,040 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,454

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OUND IN MARSH GRASS.

Investigator remarks

FUEL CONTAMINATION OCCURRED AT UNDET TIME. HIT M

Cause factors

74/C/SE C
POWERPLANT FUEL CONTROL Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
83/K/E K
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
74/L/SB L
POWERPLANT PUMP,FUEL

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 1689. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1689.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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