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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAH16

1976-05-25 BIRCHWOOD, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N117B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 525B

Year of manufacture

2018

Engine

WILLIAMS FJ44-3A

Seats / Engines

8 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20180927

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0464D

Registrant of record

EVP SYSTEMS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N117B Bell 47D-1 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 47D-1 · N117B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

BIRCHWOOD

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000037

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,070

Age

35

Investigator remarks

LND IN 5FT OF WATER. PAX DROWNED.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2628. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2628.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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