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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAA23

1978-06-23 KALTAG, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N70010

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

THRUSH AIRCRAFT LLC S2R-510

Year of manufacture

2025

TCDS

A4SW · THRUSH AIRCRAFT LLC

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-140AG (867 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20250930

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95722

Registrant of record

AFRICAIR INC

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 185 · N70010

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018501890

Total time

1,883 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,500

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHICH FLIPPED A/C OVER.POOR LIGHT CONDITIONS.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED.STRUCK SUBMERGED OBJECT IN WATER

Cause factors

  • 83/A/E A
    TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 2471. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2471.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.