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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77DAH35

1977-09-16 SEWARD, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1364D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170A

Year of manufacture

1951 · 26 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560608

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A09463

Registrant of record

SPIRO PAUL M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1364D Cessna 170A 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

CESSNA 170A · N1364D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019940

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

112

Age

28

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED STRONG DOWNDRAFTS IN PASS.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/27 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint 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 4081. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4081.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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