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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAG18

1975-07-27 GIRDWOOD, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1101B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

LUSCOMBE 8A

Year of manufacture

1947 · 28 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR A&C65 SERIES (65 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560314

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02EB0

Registrant of record

MCHUGH RONNA R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N1101B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

ALYESKA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

090° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005728

Total time

2,535 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

60

Age

28

Cause factors

  • 64/C/45 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
  • 88/L/22 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 2292. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2292.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.