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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78FA027

1978-04-02 BETHEL, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21AS

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28R-180

Year of manufacture

1968 · 10 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680716

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1B73A

Registrant of record

BOA PROPERTIES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N21AS Dornier DO-28D Fatal

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

DORNIER DO-28D · N21AS

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Airport

ICE RWY-RIVER

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004004

Total time

3,110 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,157

Age

24

Cause factors

68/A/J2 A
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 4367. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4367.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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