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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC82DAD04

1981-12-31 BIG PT WALTER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

DEHAVND CAN DHC-2 · N64396

Damage

Z

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

045° / 15 kt

Temp

15° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000782

Total time

11,926 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,234

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ATED POSSIBLE ICE ACCUMULATION FROM PROP SPRAY.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED.ACFT SANK,NOT RECOVERED.PLT INDIC

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/H J
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
  • 88/J/74 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRFRAME ICE Joint cause

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 3214. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3214.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.