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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAG28

1980-02-17 PORT ALSWORTH, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2736M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1946 · 34 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550901

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2B4D7

Registrant of record

BRUMMER CHRISTOPHER P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2736M 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 · N2736M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

20° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000012-1137

Total time

3,589 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

790

Age

29

Investigator remarks

FLIGHT PLAN WITH FRIENDS.WND GUSTING 10KTS.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/28 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause
83/J/C J
TERRAIN ICY Joint cause
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 0107. Source file NTSB_1980_3_0107.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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