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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DA037

1980-03-26 KARLUK, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N87U Grumman G-21 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

GRUMMAN G-21 · N87U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

E

Airport

KARLUK SEAPLANE

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000B-126

Total time

1,171 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,940

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

UP ONTO BEACH.

Investigator remarks

WHILE STEP TAXING ON KARLUK LAGOON ACFT SWERUED

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS 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 3757. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3757.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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