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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAG22

1979-12-30 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5460E HELIO ACFT H-250 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

HELIO ACFT H-250 · N5460E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C4

Operator type

D

Airport

FLYING CROWN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002517

Total time

1,980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

722

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AT DEPT END.

Investigator remarks

RWY HAD 12 IN.LOOSE SNOW,W PWR LINES & DIRT BERM

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/06 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BY J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 3282. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3282.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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