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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC66D0008

1965-05-24 WHITTIER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6838Z Piper PA-18 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-18 · N6838Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

H

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

045° / 30 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Total time

542 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

14,000

Age

44

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS-OFF AIRPORT OPERATION

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1887. Source file NTSB_1965_3_1887.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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