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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77DA071

1977-08-08 MCCARTHY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2418F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BUCKEYE DREAM MACHINE

Engine

ROTAX 582DCDI (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20070904

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2372C

Registrant of record

VOSTERS MARVIN N

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 · N2418F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

GREEN BUTTE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018051618

Total time

3,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.

Investigator remarks

LNDD L SIDE OF STRIP,WRECKED C-180 ON RIGHT SIDE

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 64/C/54 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause
  • 80/L/BY L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER
  • 88/L/62 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT FATIGUE

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 2089. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2089.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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