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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC74DAG95

1974-03-24 EEK, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1582P 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 · N1582P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 5 kt

Temp

38° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001582

Total time

942 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,000

Age

62

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ORE.

Investigator remarks

ENCOUNTERED WATER ON FROZEN LAKE.SWERVED INTO SH

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/Y L
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0752. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0752.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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