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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAD07

1978-09-11 SITKA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7550H Piper PA-12 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-12 · N7550H

Damage

Destroyed

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

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000012-416

Total time

1,866 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

394

Age

23

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED.WIND GUSTING TO 20 KTS.

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
88/J/88 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER 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 3052. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3052.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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