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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG17

1978-10-23 HOOPER BAY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4SF

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ISRAEL AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES ASTRA SPX

Year of manufacture

2000

TCDS

A16NM · GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE LP

Engine

ALLIEDSIGN TFE731-40-1C

Seats / Engines

14 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20000922

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4A985

Registrant of record

FMGI INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4SF Cessna U206A 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 U206A · N4SF

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

E

Airport

HOOPER BAY

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

220° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000733

Total time

4,900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,602

Age

28

Investigator remarks

GUSTS TO 30 KNOTS.

Cause factors

64/A/38 A
PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3963. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3963.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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