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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN78FTM13

1978-04-29 PROVO, Utah, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9814B Bellanca 14-19 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 14-19 · N9814B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

PROVO MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 6 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000004066

Total time

1,460 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

60

Age

26

Investigator remarks

BRAKE NOT PROPERLY INSTALLED.

Cause factors

68/A/D1 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/CB A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED 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 2763. Source file NTSB_1978_3_2763.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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