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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event SEA68D0248

1968-02-03 ELK RIVER, Idaho, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2505M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1946 · 22 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19631129

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A25A91

Registrant of record

SEVER JEFFREY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2505M 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 · N2505M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

BIG ISLAND

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 3 kt

Temp

40° F

Aircraft history

Total time

2,054 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

350

Age

27

Investigator remarks

WHEEL EQUIPPED.LANDED IN DEEP SNOW.PRIVATE ARPT.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
80/A/BC A
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY 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 2572. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2572.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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