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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80FA006

1979-10-25 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N477GM Beech E18S 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

BEECH E18S · N477GM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

RALPH WIEN MEML

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

315° / 7 kt

Temp

14° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000BA-309

Total time

8,009 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HRU ICE.INSUF ENG WARM-UP.FROST ON WINGS.

Investigator remarks

LNDD GEAR UP ON FRZN LAKE TO PREVENT GEAR BRKG T

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP

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 3952. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3952.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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