NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC80FA007
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 207 · N1684U
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
E
Kind of flying
CI
Weather at impact
Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Aircraft history
Serial number
000020700284
Total time
3,284 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
2,573
Age
26
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
PLT ADVND THROTTLE TO AVOID HILL.CO PLN.
Investigator remarks
DRG FLT AT LOW ALT UNDER OVC,ENG LOST PWR AFTER
Cause factors
- 74/C/KA C POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
- 64/K/04 K PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Joint factor
- 82/K/A K WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint factor
- 82/K/C K WEATHER FOG Joint factor
- 82/K/D K WEATHER SNOW Joint factor
- 82/K/F K WEATHER ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. Joint factor
- 88/K/75 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-WINDSHIELD Joint factor
- 88/K/74 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Joint factor
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 3896.
Source file
NTSB_1979_3_3896.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.
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.
Browse the full corpus — academia portal ↗