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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW78FA002

1978-10-13 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, United States Serious 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BELLANCA 7KCAB · N2531Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LAKEFRONT

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

305° / 7 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000617-77

Total time

280 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

17

Age

30

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 3198. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3198.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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