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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAA14

1979-05-07 UNALAKLEET, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5885D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18A 150

Year of manufacture

1956 · 23 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680618

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A796AB

Registrant of record

CONATSER SHAWN C

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5885D Piper PA-18 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-18 · N5885D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DK

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-5304

Total time

3,544 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,200

Age

32

Investigator remarks

CHAMOIS PARTICLE FOUND IN FUEL FILTER.

Cause factors

68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/B K
TERRAIN SNOW-COVERED 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 2312. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2312.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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