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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC80FAA19

1980-07-30 NOME, Alaska, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5233H Piper PA-16 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-16 · N5233H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

NOME

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000016-38

Total time

2,085 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,445

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LOWN OVR AREA BTN 500 & 1000FT,5-10MIN BFR.

Investigator remarks

ENCTRD WAKE TURBC IN CALM AIR.LOCKHEED 382 HAD F

Cause factors

84/A/1 A
MISCELLANEOUS VORTEX TURBULENCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2170. Source file NTSB_1980_3_2170.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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