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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN79DTC27

1979-09-22 JACKSON, Wyoming, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5052W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 8GCBC

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790726

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A64F36

Registrant of record

BRAY SAM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5052W Bellanca 8GCBC 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 8GCBC · N5052W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

JACKSON HOLE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000032079

Total time

35 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

66

Age

21

Investigator remarks

U-BOLT RT GEAR FAILED.

Cause factors

70/C/CA C
AIRFRAME MAIN GEAR-SHOCK ABSORBING ASSY,STRUTS,ATTACHMENTS,ETC. Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 3268. Source file NTSB_1979_3_3268.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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