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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAH21

1978-09-07 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9929N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 180J

Year of manufacture

1975 · 3 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930702

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ADDDB1

Registrant of record

BARNES STEWART A TRUSTEE

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 180 · N9929N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

DANIKA LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018052584

Total time

501 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

800

Age

49

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/28 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint cause
  • 83/J/D J
    TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION 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 3303. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3303.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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