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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW70D0010

1969-05-28 HAMILTON, Texas, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4888V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 17-30

Year of manufacture

1967 · 2 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680109

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A609D5

Registrant of record

BARRETT JAMES MICHAEL

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4888V Bellanca 17-30 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 17-30 · N4888V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAMILTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

320 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,131

Age

39

Investigator remarks

NIGHT LDG ON TAXIWAY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AS J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LANDED IN CONSTRUCTION AREA Joint cause
68/J/H1 J
PERSONNEL FAILURE TO NOTIFY OF UNSAFE COND/AND OR FAILURE TO MARK OBSTRUCTION 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 1603. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1603.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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