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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAH04

1980-09-01 KENAI, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 180 · N9134C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000031233

Total time

1,720 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

448

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AUGHT UPSLOPE WING,FLIPPED ACFT.WND GSTG 35KTS.

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON BEACH.WHILE TXG ON SLOPING BEACH,X-WND C

Cause factors

  • 64/A/38 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2344. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2344.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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