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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC72DAG12

1972-06-12 KENAI, Alaska, United States None 5 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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 JC3-65 · N70656

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

RABBIT CREEK

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000017676

Total time

560 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,299

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FLITE AIRCRFT HIT HIDDEN MOUND UNDER TALL GRASS

Investigator remarks

PLUG MISSING FROM CARBURETOR NOT VISIBLE ON PRE-

Cause factors

74/A/CG A
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/96 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/B/BJ B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD
80/B/BI B
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIGH VEGETATION

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 2174. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2174.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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