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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAG49

1975-09-22 PORT ALSWORTH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N938C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVIAT AIRCRAFT INC A-1B

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

LYCOMING O-360 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20011012

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD0393

Registrant of record

ELLIS JAMES SCOTT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N938C Stinson 108-3 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

STINSON 108-3 · N938C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000108-3938

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

200

Age

49

Investigator remarks

HIT DEPRESSION IN TUNDRA. R GR FAILED.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/A/F A
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause

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 4151. Source file NTSB_1975_3_4151.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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