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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAA29

1981-09-06 BETTLES, 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 182 · N9096G

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

GOLDBENCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / — kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260636

Total time

1,818 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

476

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GSTG FM NR CALM TO 20KTS.

Investigator remarks

RWY MARKED WITH X.ATMTD LNDG BTN BARRICADES.WND

Cause factors

  • 64/A/29 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 84/J/7 J
    MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION Joint cause
  • 88/J/AP J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RUNWAY CLOSED Joint cause
  • 88/J/AQ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 1820. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1820.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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