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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79FA050

1979-05-20 JUNEAU, Alaska, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6434C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7BCM

Year of manufacture

1957 · 22 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C85 SERIES (85 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A87347

Registrant of record

OLIVER FRANK E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6434C Aeronca 7BCM 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

AERONCA 7BCM · N6434C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

00007BCM-141

Total time

2,621 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED WING LEADING EDGE.

Investigator remarks

ACFT OPERATING FROM SANDBAR IN TAKU RIVER.MODIFI

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/J/AE J
AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Joint cause
88/J/AD J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNAPPROVED MODIFICATION 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 2117. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2117.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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