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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAA31

1975-05-27 NOME, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2805M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

REED JERRY B 66

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19940915

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2D10E

Registrant of record

MURNER EDWARD D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2805M Piper PA-12 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-12 · N2805M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

NOME

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

120° / 4 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000012-1258

Total time

2,483 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

82

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1830. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1830.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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