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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77DAA51

1977-09-07 BETTLES, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4974C Cessna A185F 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

CESSNA A185F · N4974C

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

E

Airport

EVANSVILLE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018502672

Total time

1,633 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,722

Age

30

Investigator remarks

PLT ASKED PAX TO ASSIST IN DOCKING FLOAT PLANE.

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3693. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3693.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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