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ANC80DAG04

1979-10-01 · SPARREVOHN, Alaska, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N4912 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (NORTH AMERICAN F-86A), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PILATUS PC-6 · N4912
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Wind
090° / 20 kt
Temp
41° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000544
Total time
11,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
4,300
Age
41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ING 40 KTS.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD SVR DWNDFTS DRG FLT OVR MTN PASS.WND GUST

Cause factors

  • 64/A/27 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING 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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2365. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2365.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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