NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC76FAG94
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
INTERSTATE S1B1 · N46618
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EE
Operator type
D
Airport
UNNAMED STRIP
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000000224
Total time
2,500 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
203
Age
26
Investigator remarks
L GR FAILED. RUST FOUND ALONG BREAK.
Cause factors
- 70/C/CA C AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause
- 88/C/36 C MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
- 88/L/AH L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE
- 88/L/94 L MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
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 0130.
Source file
NTSB_1976_3_0130.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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