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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAG17

1977-12-27 MT.SUSITNA, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1553F Cessna 185D 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

CESSNA 185D · N1553F

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000185-0919

Total time

3,100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

7,200

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SS PRIOR TO IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

PILOT STATES THAT HE APPARENTLY LOST CONSCIOUSNE

Cause factors

64/A/65 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4088. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4088.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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