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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA108

1976-06-30 PALMER, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N58013 Bell 206B Fatal

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 · N58013

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EH

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CT

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001033

Total time

1,263 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,780

Age

36

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON STEEP ROCKY RIDGE.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN 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 2664. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2664.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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