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ANC68D0049

1967-08-29 · KETCHIKAN, Alaska, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA-12S · N3993M
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
3,240 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
515
Age
67

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3018. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3018.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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