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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74AA036

1973-09-23 KING SALMON, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4436Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EA VISION EA J100

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A55904

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4436Z Piper PA-18 Fatal

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 · N4436Z

Damage

None

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

Z

Phase of flight

A1

Operator type

Business

Airport

ILIAMNA LODGE

Kind of flying

DK

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-8778

Total time

1,275 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,104

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

IPPED INTO PROP.

Investigator remarks

PAX IGNORED PLT INSTRUCTIONS,STEPPED ON FLOAT,SL

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER 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 2806. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2806.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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