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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC73DAG25

1972-08-21 SKWENTNA, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7386 Piper PA-18A Minor

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-18A · N7386

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Airport

PRIVATE STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

045° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-5751

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

225

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E STUMP,ACFT FELL INTO WATER.

Investigator remarks

ENG PARTS REMOVED PRIOR TO INVEST.LDG GR HIT TRE

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/K/88 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint factor

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 3156. Source file NTSB_1972_3_3156.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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