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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DA035

1978-04-30 BETHEL, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9842M Maule M4210C 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

MAULE M4210C · N9842M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001025

Total time

4,128 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

940

Age

47

Investigator remarks

L HORIZ STAB FAILED.

Cause factors

68/A/D6 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/D3 A
AIRFRAME HORIZONTAL STABILIZER, ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT 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 3595. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3595.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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