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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC70DAG14

1970-04-09 COLD BAY, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N825PK

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172S

Year of manufacture

2026

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-L2A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20260321

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB44BD

Registrant of record

TEXTRON AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N825PK 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 · N825PK

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PORT MOLLER

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

360° / 8 kt

Temp

36° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-8789

Total time

226 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

640

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LDG ON BEACH.

Investigator remarks

ACFT EQPD RETRACTABLE SKIS,DUG IN SAND DRG WHEEL

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/A/K A
TERRAIN SANDY Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1812. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1812.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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