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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG77

1981-09-05 SOLDOTNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N83508

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-18-150

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19761230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB6D66

Registrant of record

PIERSKALLA NICOLAS B

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N83508 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 · N83508

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

UNION LAKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0018-7709054

Total time

298 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,300

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KOF FM LAKE,CTCD ELEVATED GRAVEL ROAD.

Investigator remarks

FLOAT EQUIPPED ACFT CRASH LNDD ON TUNDRA AFTER T

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 3392. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3392.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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