NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ANC77DA099
Registry · N55030
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
PIPER PA-28R-200
Year of manufacture
1973 · 4 years old at event
Engine
LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19730224
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A70245
Registrant of record
REINER JOHN G
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
PIPER PA-28R · N55030
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
E
Airport
PORT ALSWORTH
Kind of flying
CJ
Weather at impact
Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Aircraft history
Serial number
028R-7335171
Total time
1,336 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
1,575
Age
24
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ER CONSTRUCTION
Investigator remarks
RNWY SURFACE LARGE ROCKS,LOOSE GRAVEL RUNWAY UND
Cause factors
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/A/AS A MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 88/J/94 J MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
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 3814.
Source file
NTSB_1977_3_3814.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.