Atlas / NTSB / ANC76DAA64

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAA64

1976-09-27 CANDLE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N52MD Maule M-5 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

MAULE M-5 · N52MD

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000060490

Total time

200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,170

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

. LDG AREA TOO SHORT.

Investigator remarks

PRECAUTIONARY LDG DUE TO FUEL LEAKING IN COCKPIT

Cause factors

74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER 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 3457. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3457.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.