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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79DAH15

1979-08-22 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3694Z Piper PA-18 Serious

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 · N3694Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B2

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

DK

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 6 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-7429

Total time

4,872 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

30,000

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TED TO START ENG WHILE ACFT WAS SLIDING.

Investigator remarks

ACFT SLID BACKWARDS OFF GLACIER CLIFF.PLT ATTEMP

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/C J
TERRAIN ICY Joint cause

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 2362. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2362.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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