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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76DIG17

1976-06-08 CUMBERLAND, Maryland, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4635E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERONCA 7CCM

Year of manufacture

1949 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C90 SERIES (95 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19580110

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A5A7CC

Registrant of record

UCHIMOTO DANIEL Y

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N4635E Aeronca 7CCM 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

AERONCA 7CCM · N4635E

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CUMBERLAND MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000202

Total time

1,348 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

86

Age

29

Investigator remarks

HIT SMALL DITCH.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 1267. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1267.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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