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ANC69D0046

1968-08-12 · TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA-20S · N716SA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time
1,770 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
36
Age
34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ECT. SWIFT CURRENT CARRIED ACFT DOWN RIVER.

Investigator remarks

PLT LANDED ON RIVER. FLOATS STRUCK SUBMERGED OBJ

Cause factors

  • 64/C/33 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
  • 83/C/E C
    TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
  • 83/L/G L
    TERRAIN ROUGH 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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2947. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2947.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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