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ANC79DAG54

1979-05-26 · ANCHORAGE, Alaska, United States · Minor · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N2FD has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CANADAIR LTD CL-600-2B16, built 1997), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PIPER PA-18A · N2FD
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
MERRILL FIELD
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000018-4559
Total time
1,830 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
224
Age
37

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 64/L/31 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0878. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0878.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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