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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI79FEC44

1979-08-16 MANCHESTER, Michigan, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N19BC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

N19BC LLC BACKCOUNTRY SUPERCUB

Year of manufacture

2023

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20230709

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A165EE

Registrant of record

N19BC LLC

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

STITTS SA-3A · N19BC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000P591

Total time

108 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,356

Age

60

Investigator remarks

R WING FABRIC SEPARATED.

Cause factors

  • 70/A/AE A
    AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/95 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2600. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2600.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.