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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC65D0002

1965-03-06 NENANA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6280P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA P210N

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

CONT MOTOR TSIO-520 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20210210

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8365B

Registrant of record

AIRBORNE EQUIPMENT INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6280P Piper PA-24 None

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 PA-24 · N6280P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

NENANA

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 4 kt

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Total time

705 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

500

Age

39

Cause factors

88/C/13 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS NOT ALIGNED WITH RUNWAY/INTENDED LANDING AREA Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
88/L/78 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WHITEOUT

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 0375. Source file NTSB_1965_3_0375.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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