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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC66F0098

1966-04-10 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N22978

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J3C-65

Year of manufacture

1939 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A205DE

Registrant of record

TRE AVIATION CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N22978 Piper J-3C 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 J-3C · N22978

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

WASILLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

56

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/J/BR J
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SOFT SHOULDERS Joint cause

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 0738. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0738.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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