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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81FAA24

1981-08-12 HEALY, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5075E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ZENITH ZENITH STOL CH 701

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20060126

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A656FD

Registrant of record

MULLINS JUSTIN LUKE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5075E AERO COMDR 500S Minor

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

AERO COMDR 500S · N5075E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Airport

HEALY RIVER STRIP

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

158° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001855-37

Total time

4,992 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

5,500

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

APRX 1.5MI EITHER SIDE OF ARPT.

Investigator remarks

WND GSTG 20KTS AT ARPT.WND VARIABLE & GSTG 50KTS

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1808. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1808.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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