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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAH42

1976-07-18 DILLINGHAM, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8883C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22

Year of manufacture

1953 · 23 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560614

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC3E51

Registrant of record

BALL TRAVIS W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8883C Piper PA-22 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-22 · N8883C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

DILLINGHAM CITY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

2,135 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

535

Age

43

Investigator remarks

SELECTOR ON EMPTY TANK.LNDD IN TUNDRA.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2612. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2612.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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