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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81FA079

1981-07-14 KENAI, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3373F Douglas DC-4 Fatal

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

DOUGLAS DC-4 · N3373F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

CS

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

020° / 6 kt

Temp

54° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000036061

Total time

28,492 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

9,776

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FOUND NO 2 CYL FAILED, PROP FEATHERING LN SEPD.

Investigator remarks

FIRE IN NO 1 ENG/L WING,ENG TORE AWAY,WING SEPD.

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
74/B/FY B
POWERPLANT OTHER
88/B/94 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
88/K/51 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint factor
88/K/DA K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN WING Joint factor
88/K/49 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint factor

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 3164. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3164.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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