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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81FA012

1980-12-27 WASILLA, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2222C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PILATUS PC-12/45

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-67 (1200 hp)

Seats / Engines

12 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040302

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1EB10

Registrant of record

DODSON INTERNATIONAL PARTS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 180 · N2222C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000030522

Total time

2,229 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

278

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARD LIMITING CABLES TO BRING SKI TIPS UP,N/C/W.

Investigator remarks

AD 55-04-01,INSTALLING PRELOADED BUNGEES ON FORW

Cause factors

  • 68/A/D0 A
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/A/CG A
    AIRFRAME SKI ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CB A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3286. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3286.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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