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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI77DEP04

1976-07-25 BRISTOL, Wisconsin, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5396A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310B

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19571118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6D507

Registrant of record

CUTRIGHT AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5396A Cessna 310B 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

CESSNA 310B · N5396A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

WINFIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000035596

Total time

3,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

855

Age

22

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 3882. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3882.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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