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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAG62

1978-06-06 PALMER, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8554V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7ECA

Year of manufacture

1974 · 4 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O-320-A2B (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20170502

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABBCE3

Registrant of record

PAULSON MARSHALL R

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8554V Bellanca 7ECA 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

BELLANCA 7ECA · N8554V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001070-75

Total time

547 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

120

Age

26

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON GRAVEL BAR.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/K J
TERRAIN SANDY Joint cause

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 2283. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2283.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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