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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC75DAH01

1975-06-12 KING SALMON, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7028K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-4

Year of manufacture

2009

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20090410

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A95F76

Registrant of record

BILLINGS ALAN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7028K Piper PA-20 Serious

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-20 · N7028K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

KING SALMON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

050° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000020-134

Total time

1,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

400

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 1704. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1704.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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