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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD76FIA08

1975-12-24 WOODSTOCK, Virginia, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N53743 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 · N53743

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000536-75

Total time

14 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

6,352

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

KIT BLOCKED REAR SEAT FLT CONTROL MOVEMENT.

Investigator remarks

IMPROPER STORAGE OF NAVIGATION KIT IN REAR SEAT.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
84/A/G A
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/43 A
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTROL INTERFERENCE 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 3899. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3899.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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