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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAG99

1976-03-24 PORT ALSWORTH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 180 · N9337T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000050837

Total time

2,502 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

825

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.SETTLED INTO HILL.STOL KIT,PLT OP AS NORMAL C-180

Investigator remarks

TKOF FRM FROZEN SWAMP,HIT BUMP & BECAME AIRBORNE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/24 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/20 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/Y J
    TERRAIN OTHER 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 0741. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0741.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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