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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC69D0030

1968-08-19 NOME, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7440K Piper PA-20 Minor

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-20 · N7440K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,296 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

940

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ECES JAMMED BETWEEN RUDDER PEDALS AND FLOORBOARD.

Investigator remarks

PLEXIGLASS WINDSHIELD BROKE INWARDLY. SEVERAL PI

Cause factors

70/C/BH C
AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
75/B/CE B
SYSTEMS RUDDER AND RUDDER TAB CONTROL SYSTEM
88/B/CD B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED

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 2784. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2784.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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