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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC71AN074

1970-12-24 NORTHWAY, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N453PA

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 747-46NF

Year of manufacture

2001

Engine

GE CF6-80 SERIES

Seats / Engines

366 seats · 4 engines

Last airworthiness date

20010822

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A57E87

Registrant of record

ATLAS AIR 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

BOEING 707 · N453PA

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000019374

Total time

11,771 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

GA (GA)

Total hours

28,628

Age

58

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

RED WHEN TORN FROM MOTHERS ARMS.

Investigator remarks

EXTREME TURB ENCOUNTERED,WAS NOT FCST. BABY INJU

Cause factors

  • 82/A/K A
    WEATHER TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT,CLEAR AIR Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/CZ J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEAT BELT SIGN ON Joint cause
  • 68/J/F0 J
    PERSONNEL INCORRECT WEATHER FORECAST 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 1 0052. Source file NTSB_1970_1_0052.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.