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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AAA43

1976-07-06 KALTAG, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N70487

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185F

Year of manufacture

1973 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730414

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A966FA

Registrant of record

PICAZO DANIEL M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N70487 Cessna 185F 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 185F · N70487

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

KALTAG

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502190

Total time

857 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,610

Age

37

Investigator remarks

TRANSPORTING FISH IN TANKS.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING
88/L/60 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARGO SHIFTED

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 2634. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2634.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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