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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80FA016

1979-12-02 DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, United States Serious 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

LEAR JET 24 · N300JA

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

E

Airport

DUTCH HARBOR

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

030° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000282

Total time

3,120 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

15,756

Age

56

Investigator remarks

COLLIDED W ROCKS BORDERING R SIDE OF RWY.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/35 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
  • 64/B/06 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
  • 68/L/H2 L
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER/INADEQUATE SNOW REMOVAL
  • 80/L/BA L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES WET RUNWAY
  • 80/L/BB L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES ICE/SLUSH ON RUNWAY
  • 80/L/BK L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES POORLY MAINTAINED RUNWAY SURFACE
  • 80/L/BL L
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT RUNWAY

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 4015. Source file NTSB_1979_3_4015.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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