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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAA27

1979-07-28 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3279A Cessna 170B None

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 170B · N3279A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

BEACH AREA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000025923

Total time

2,968 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

73

Age

29

Investigator remarks

LDG AREA WAS AN ABANDONED BEACH STRIP

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/07 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
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 2156. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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