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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW80FQG01

1979-10-06 BIG SPRING, Texas, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8647

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 7KCAB

Year of manufacture

1973 · 6 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19730307

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE100

Registrant of record

OBER JOHN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8647 Bellanca 7KCAB Serious

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 · N8647

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000355-73

Total time

1,043 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

20,000

Age

46

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INDSHIELD WHERE PREVIOUS CRACKS STOPDRILLED.

Investigator remarks

WINDSHIELD(PN 7-1264)FAILED DRG FLT.3 HOLES IN W

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/BH A
AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE 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 2539. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2539.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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