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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78FA002

1977-11-09 NORTHWAY, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6709N Mooney M-20C 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

MOONEY M-20C · N6709N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

NORTHWAY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

-27° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000680044

Total time

912 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

70

Age

38

Investigator remarks

ENG WINTERIZATION KIT NOT INSTALLED. LOW TEMP.

Cause factors

64/C/01 C
PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
82/L/Y L
WEATHER OTHER

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 4271. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4271.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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