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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74DAG28

1973-08-26 SKWENTNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41181

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER J5A

Year of manufacture

1941 · 32 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730430

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4DB61

Registrant of record

RYAN CYNTHIA L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N41181 Piper J5A 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 J5A · N41181

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Aircraft history

Serial number

000002567-21

Total time

2,151 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,040

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ER RECOVERY.

Investigator remarks

USED CARB HEAT,RESTARTED ENGINE TOO LATE FOR POW

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/CY C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE INDUCTION Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
82/L/G L
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2984. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2984.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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