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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC72DAG81

1971-12-05 SKWENTNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2028U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-4-220C

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

FRANKLIN 6V 350 SERIES (235 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680618

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A19CF4

Registrant of record

FISHER JEFFREY L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2028U Maule M-4 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

MAULE M-4 · N2028U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B6

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000002016C

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

215

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D BAR.R WNG HIT SNW BNK.

Investigator remarks

ATMTD TO PACK SOFT SNW BY TAXIING ACFT ALONG SAN

Cause factors

64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 4457. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4457.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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