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ANC81DAG70

1981-08-28 · WHITTIER, Alaska, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N49128 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (STANDARD E-1), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
INTERSTATE S-1B1 · N49128
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
WHITTIER
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
270° / 25 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000231
Total time
1,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
2,000
Age
43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OTTLE.HIT OBSTN ON BOAT DOCK.WND GSTG 35KTS.

Investigator remarks

CARGO FASTENED TO REAR SEAT SHIFTED & JAMMED THR

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/60 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CARGO SHIFTED Cause
  • 74/C/I0 C
    POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 88/C/CD C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
  • 82/L/K L
    WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR
  • 83/K/Y K
    TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1814. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1814.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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