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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC71DAG76

1971-02-03 SKWENTNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8696D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18

Year of manufacture

1958 · 13 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580122

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABF374

Registrant of record

DUPUIS RAYMOND F JR

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8696D 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 · N8696D

Damage

Substantial

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

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

-15° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000186306

Total time

1,620 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

3,576

Age

25

Investigator remarks

R SKI BROKE THROUGH CRUSTED SNOW.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/B J
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED Joint cause

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 0984. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0984.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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