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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC68D0114

1968-06-07 YAKUTAT, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N28290

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

GRUMMAN AMERICAN AA-5B

Year of manufacture

1977

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770622

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D915

Registrant of record

MURPHY BENJAMIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N28290 Piper J-5 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-5 · N28290

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

4,370 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,850

Age

23

Investigator remarks

STRUCK SAND WINDROW LNDG ON BEACH.

Cause factors

64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/K L
TERRAIN SANDY
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 1436. Source file NTSB_1968_3_1436.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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