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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAG49

1980-05-07 KING SALMON, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8781D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Year of manufacture

1958 · 22 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19601230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC168D

Registrant of record

ROWE DAVID R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8781D Piper PA-18 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-18 · N8781D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

090° / 20 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-6310

Total time

1,700 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

430

Age

26

Investigator remarks

GRAVEL BAR.WND GSTG 30KTS

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 1547. Source file NTSB_1980_3_1547.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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