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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80DAG96

1980-08-14 PALMER, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2FD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CANADAIR LTD CL-600-2B16

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

GE CF34-3B

Seats / Engines

22 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19970714

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18DD2

Registrant of record

LEVER ARC LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2FD 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 · N2FD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BUSH STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000018-4559

Total time

1,791 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,057

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AFTR TKOF.DA APRX 3900FT.

Investigator remarks

LEANED ENG FOR TKOF DUE ALT.RPM DROPPED TO 1900

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
82/L/W L
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE

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 2331. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2331.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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