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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG86

1979-08-17 KENAI, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3699T Taylorcraft F-19 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

TAYLORCRAFT F-19 · N3699T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

ROCKY STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000076

Total time

650 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

3,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BAL COMP.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED ACFT NOT OVERLOADED TWO TIMES,NO W &

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 3724. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3724.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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