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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC77DAG98

1977-08-12 PALMER, Alaska, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8853

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TRAVEL AIR MFG CO 2000

Year of manufacture

1920 · 57 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19290403

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC3329

Registrant of record

RAMBO GENE

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8853 Bellanca 7ECA Minor

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 7ECA · N8853

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000930-73

Total time

1,685 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

600

Age

30

Investigator remarks

SIGHTING SHEEP.

Cause factors

68/A/K4 A
PERSONNEL PASSENGER Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/77 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 3123. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3123.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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