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ANC66F0013

1965-07-28 · NENANA, Alaska, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA18A · N3891P
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise climb (DB)
Operator type
D
Airport
NENANA FAA
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Temp
52° F

Aircraft history

Total time
1,460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
175
Age
36

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0488. Source file NTSB_1965_2_0488.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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