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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76AA135

1976-09-14 MISSING AIRCRAFT, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5VB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH E-55

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19830825

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6371B

Registrant of record

CUSTOM FIRE APPARATUS INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5VB Bellanca 7GCBC Fatal

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

BELLANCA 7GCBC · N5VB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000420-73

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AST TRANSMISSION WAS AT 2155ADT.

Investigator remarks

MAYDAY RECEIVED AT 2144ADT.PLT WAS LOST IN IMC.L

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 3847. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3847.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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