| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | December 24, 1961 |
| Time: | 1050 |
| Location: | Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska |
| Operator: | Kodiak Airways |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Old Harbor - Kaguyak |
| AC Type: | Grumman G-21A Goose |
| Registration: | N1503V |
| cn / ln: | 1020 |
| Aboard: | 5 (passengers:4 crew:1) |
| Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Crashed shortly after initial lift-off while making a water takeoff from Old Harbor. Improperly executed takeoff which resulted in an inadvertent descent into the water. This produced a high-speed low-angle porpoising from which the pilot was unable to recover. |
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