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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77DAG95

1977-05-15 PALMER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7605K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180J

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760402

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA4499

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

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 · N7605K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

BUSH STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018552687

Total time

157 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

260

Age

35

Investigator remarks

PERFORMING SERIES OF PWR-OFF GLIDES.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause

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 2667. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2667.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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