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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG59

1979-07-12 PALMER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9111M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA U206E

Year of manufacture

1970 · 9 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700417

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC9CE9

Registrant of record

SIERRA AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9111M Cessna U206 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 U206 · N9111M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FINGER LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

58° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20601511

Total time

665 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,000

Age

70

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT EQUIPPED

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED WITH SUBMERGED OBJECTS DURING TKOF. FLO

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/E J
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS 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 2333. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2333.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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