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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG29

1981-02-25 NEW STUYAHOK, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5629V Maule M-5 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

MAULE M-5 · N5629V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

NEW STUYAHOK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

060° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000007225C

Total time

305 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

157

Age

29

Investigator remarks

GUSTS TO 16 KNOTS.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS

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 0403. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0403.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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