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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAG52

1979-05-12 BIRCHWOOD, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7649H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1946 · 33 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA53FF

Registrant of record

RINEBOLD JASON R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7649H 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 · N7649H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

D

Airport

BIRCHWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

100115569-15

Total time

2,123 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

28

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

.ENGINE RUN UP CHECK DURING TAXI TO TAKEOFF.

Investigator remarks

OTHER ACFT,N755B,SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO LEFT WING

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/06 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISREGARD OF GOOD OPERATING PRACTICE

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 1227. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1227.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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