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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ATL81FIA05

1981-05-03 HARTWOOD, Virginia, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6HM

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7GCBC

Year of manufacture

1972 · 9 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810407

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A7C348

Registrant of record

HENNING NANCY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6HM Bellanca 7GCBC 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 7GCBC · N6HM

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

HARTWOOD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

060° / 2 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000362-72

Total time

364 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

119

Age

33

Investigator remarks

DESCENDING EMBANKMENT 50 FEET RIGHT OF RUNWAY

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0848. Source file NTSB_1981_3_0848.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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