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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC68A0006

1967-07-27 SITKA, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9625W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-83(MD-83)

Year of manufacture

1998

Engine

P & W JT8D SERIES

Seats / Engines

172 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19981013

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD66B0

Registrant of record

JETRAN LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9625W Piper PA-28 Fatal

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-28 · N9625W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CH

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

350

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ST PWR,ACFT DCND TO IFR CONDS BEFORE PWR RESTORED.

Investigator remarks

PLT RMVD CARB HEAT BFOR ENTERING ADVRS WX.ENG LO

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/L/A L
WEATHER LOW CEILING
82/L/B L
WEATHER RAIN
82/L/C L
WEATHER FOG
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
64/L/29 L
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

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 2 0745. Source file NTSB_1967_2_0745.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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