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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI78FA036

1978-04-24 ROCKFORD, Illinois, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41680

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7KCAB

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4EDF3

Registrant of record

TAILWHEEL ADVENTURES LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N41680 Bellanca 7KCAB 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

BELLANCA 7KCAB · N41680

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000396-73

Total time

750 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

26

Investigator remarks

STUDENT PILOT IN REAR SEAT.

Cause factors

64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/01 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALTIMETER SETTING-INCORRECT 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 3871. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3871.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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