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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77FAD06

1977-05-04 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7292P Piper PA-24 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-24 · N7292P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

JUNEAU INTL ARPRT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-2470

Total time

1,613 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

400

Age

47

Investigator remarks

LNDD IN MARSHY AREA.

Cause factors

74/C/CC C
POWERPLANT SELECTOR VALVES Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
83/B/A B
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND

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 1614. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1614.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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