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CHI81FA071

1981-07-04 · VIKING, Minnesota, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N8992R has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6A, built 1992), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BELLANCA 7GCB · N8992R
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D0
Operator type
D
Airport
HARSTAD FARM
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
225° / 2 kt
Temp
80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000020
Total time
2,400 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
130
Age
24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

00FT,LVLD OFF,ENG SPUTTERED,DSCD AS WINGS ROCKED.

Investigator remarks

AFT TKOF ACFT ACCLD CLOSE TO GD,CLBD RAPIDLY 2-3

Cause factors

  • 64/C/23 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 64/B/16 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1204. Source file NTSB_1981_3_1204.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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