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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC72DAH16

1972-05-27 MCGRATH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7288K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18

Year of manufacture

1950 · 22 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550818

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9C4BE

Registrant of record

AGHA THANOON J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7288K 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 · N7288K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

OPHIR,

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000018-201

Total time

2,327 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,500

Age

34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ESCEND AND STRIKE DIRT BERM WITH LEFT GEAR

Investigator remarks

PLT CONCENTRATING ON LNDG AREA ALLOWED ACFT TO D

Cause factors

64/A/08 A
PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT 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 2047. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2047.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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