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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC68F0074

1967-12-16 SITKA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4581A Piper PA-18 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 PA-18 · N4581A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

SITKA TURNAROUND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

2,805 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,534

Age

22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LONG. RISING TERRAIN PRECLUDED GO AROUND ATTEMPT.

Investigator remarks

PLT TRIED TO LAND ON SEAPLANE RAMP ABOUT 600 FT

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/H L
TERRAIN GLASSY WATER
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 4341. Source file NTSB_1967_3_4341.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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