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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77FA025

1977-02-03 STEPOVAK BAY, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N442JA Swearingen SA226T Serious

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

SWEARINGEN SA226T · N442JA

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

BIG RIVER

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC-218

Total time

772 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

6,500

Age

37

Cause factors

70/C/CP C
AIRFRAME NOSEWHEEL STEERING Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 2798. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2798.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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