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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI72DEI26

1971-12-29 PAINESVILLE, Ohio, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6553N

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 14-19

Year of manufacture

1950 · 21 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-435A/0-435C (190 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19970213

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8A21B

Registrant of record

BEATTIE JOSEPH D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N6553N Bellanca 14-193 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 14-193 · N6553N

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CASEMENT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 15 kt

Temp

34° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002005

Total time

1,151 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,980

Age

25

Investigator remarks

60DEG LEFT WIND.

Cause factors

64/C/28 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
82/C/H C
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 3790. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3790.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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