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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75AA059

1975-02-27 BELUGA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N15647

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-34-200

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

7 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19721204

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0E37D

Registrant of record

FLYNN DANIEL C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N15647 Maule M-5 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

MAULE M-5 · N15647

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005031C

Total time

80 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,638

Age

45

Investigator remarks

ROAD CLEARED 20-30FT WIDE.HIT SNOW BERM.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 0475. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0475.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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