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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC79IA055

1979-06-02 STEBBINS, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1606U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CAMERON BALLOONS US C-80

Year of manufacture

1995

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19950607

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0F4EB

Registrant of record

ASHLEY JOY

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 207 · N1606U

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000020700206

Total time

5,454 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

990

Age

20

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SSIVE SEALER ON THEM.CRANKCASE HALVES LOOSE.

Investigator remarks

FRONT CRANKCASE THROUGH BOLTS FOUND TO HAVE EXCE

Cause factors

  • 68/C/D0 C
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
  • 74/C/AA C
    POWERPLANT CRANKCASE Cause
  • 88/C/CB C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
  • 83/K/A K
    TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 5 0007. Source file NTSB_1979_5_0007.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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