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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC66D0029

1965-09-08 KOTZEBUE, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7080K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN VLIET CHARLES A CORBY STARLET CJ-1

Year of manufacture

2024

Engine

JABIRU 2200 (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20240419

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A974A8

Registrant of record

VAN VLIET CHARLES A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7080K Piper PA-20 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-20 · N7080K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

WEIN

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 21 kt

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

82

Age

27

Investigator remarks

CROSSWIND GUSTING TO 21 KNOTS

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
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 2496. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2496.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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