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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAH65

1976-09-12 MCGRATH, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8982D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18A 150

Year of manufacture

1958 · 18 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600325

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC65AE

Registrant of record

NORTH SOUND AVIATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8982D Piper PA-18 Minor

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-18 · N8982D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-6377

Total time

1,098 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,350

Age

32

Investigator remarks

LND ON GRAVEL BAR ABT 750FT LONG.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/L/35 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
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 2622. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2622.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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