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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG51

1981-07-21 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4585Z Piper PA-22 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-22 · N4585Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

PHILOS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-8094

Total time

4,272 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

224

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ADS TO OP ENG.STRUCK PWR LINE.

Investigator remarks

PLT HAD WRONG KEY FOR IGNITION.DISCONNECTED P-LE

Cause factors

64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause
74/C/BH C
POWERPLANT SWITCHES Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
88/C/BX C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS GROUNDED Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS

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 1837. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1837.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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