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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAH23

1976-06-15 DILLINGHAM, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7589E Champion 7GC 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

CHAMPION 7GC · N7589E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000023

Total time

1,753 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

547

Age

29

Investigator remarks

AILERON CABLES CROSSED.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
75/C/CA C
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) 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 1536. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1536.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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