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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAA17

1981-07-03 SLATE CREEK, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9303Z DEHAVND CAN DHC-2 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

DEHAVND CAN DHC-2 · N9303Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Airport

SLATE CREEK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

045° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000380

Total time

8,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,230

Age

28

Investigator remarks

COMPANY FLIGHT PLAN. WIND GUSTING TO 12KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1470. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1470.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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