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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAG32

1978-03-17 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N143C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CIRRUS DESIGN SR22

Year of manufacture

2008

TCDS

A00009CH · CIRRUS DESIGN CORP

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO-550-N (310 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20080827

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0AE07

Registrant of record

GAVIN LAUREN AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N143C Stinson 108-2 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

STINSON 108-2 · N143C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

PRIVATE AIRSTRIP

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Temp

28° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000108-3143

Total time

2,260 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

33

Age

29

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/D K
TERRAIN HIGH VEGETATION Joint factor

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 0516. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0516.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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