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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80IA021

1979-12-21 BETHEL, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7605U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 207A

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780503

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA44A2

Registrant of record

RYAN AIR INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7605U Cessna 207A 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

CESSNA 207A · N7605U

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000020700443

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,000

Age

36

Cause factors

74/A/AC A
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/81 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 5 0050. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0050.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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