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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA106

1976-06-23 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N26641 DEHAVILLAND DHC-3 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

DEHAVILLAND DHC-3 · N26641

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000134

Total time

2,910 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,170

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

MALL GRAVEL BAR IN RIVER.

Investigator remarks

ACFT FLOWN ON REAR TANK FOR 2 HOURS. LANDED ON S

Cause factors

64/C/20 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/J K
TERRAIN LOOSE GRAVEL Joint factor
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 3889. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3889.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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