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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC76DAG31

1975-08-23 SOLDOTNA, Alaska, United States None 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 Champion 7GCBC 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

CHAMPION 7GCBC · N5VB

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SOLDOTNA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000420-73

Total time

216 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

61

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EERED TO L.

Investigator remarks

2.5HRS DUAL IN CONVENTIONAL GR ACFT. BOUNCED & V

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 3708. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3708.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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