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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC81DAG97

1981-09-20 WASILLA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1948 · 33 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES (115 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560921

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA413C

Registrant of record

GREEN STEVEN L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N76X Piper PA-12 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-12 · N76X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

WASILLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

230° / 2 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000012-4036

Total time

2,766 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

900

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ACK TWD ARPT AFT ENG LOST PWR.

Investigator remarks

FUEL LN BLOCKED W LINT AT FUEL SELECTOR.TURNED B

Cause factors

68/C/D8 C
PERSONNEL OTHER Cause
88/C/64 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL CONTAMINATION-EXCLUSIVE OF WATER IN FUEL Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 2847. Source file NTSB_1981_3_2847.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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