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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAG26

1980-01-04 PALMER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7721K Piper PA-20 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-20 · N7721K

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PALMER

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 3 kt

Temp

-15° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000020-543

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,691

Age

33

Investigator remarks

NO BRAKE PEDALS ON RGT SIDE OF COCKPIT.

Cause factors

66/C/79 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT 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 0020. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0020.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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