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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event UNK64X2082

1964-06-03 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N714

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA A185F

Year of manufacture

1975

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19750404

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A98AE8

Registrant of record

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

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

PIPER PA18 · N714

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

H

Kind of flying

DQ

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,300

Age

33

Cause factors

  • 64/A/24 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/35 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/A/F A
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 1520. Source file NTSB_1964_3_1520.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.