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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DA020

1981-01-26 CLARKS POINT, 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 U206 · N8279Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

E

Airport

CLARKS POINT

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

180° / 5 kt

Temp

23° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000U20603140

Total time

3,273 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,035

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/04 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG 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 0232. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0232.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.