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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG71

1979-07-29 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N44NM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPORT PERFORMANCE AVIATION LLC PANTHER LS

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5497C

Registrant of record

MARKER MICHAEL M JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N44NM Cessna 150J Minor

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 150J · N44NM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015070528

Total time

2,580 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,300

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT END OF LAKE.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED ACFT.COLLIDE W SHORELINE & TREES

Cause factors

64/A/17 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/M J
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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 2358. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2358.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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