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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81FA091

1981-08-04 DILLINGHAM, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9552M Cessna 207A 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

CESSNA 207A · N9552M

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CJ

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000020700702

Total time

275 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

3,704

Age

34

Investigator remarks

COMPANY FLT PLN.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3573. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3573.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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