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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG09

1980-09-16 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5135H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-14

Year of manufacture

1948 · 32 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560819

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66FA3

Registrant of record

KINNEEN SIMON N

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5135H Piper PA-14 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-14 · N5135H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

NORTH HART LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000014-145

Total time

3,779 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

237

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ARTING FROM LAKE.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED. WIND GUSTING TO 20 KTS. ACFT DEP

Cause factors

64/A/28 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
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 3024. Source file NTSB_1980_3_3024.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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