NTSB CAROL · Event
Event IAD76FKM43
Registry · N44BF
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
S.O.C.A.T.A. MS894A
Year of manufacture
1972 · 4 years old at event
Engine
FRANKLIN 6V 350 SERIES (235 hp)
Seats / Engines
4 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19720822
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A54863
Registrant of record
PEARL RYAN C
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
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
M-SAULNIER MS894A · N44BF
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B2
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Aircraft history
Serial number
000000011932
Total time
169 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
4,592
Age
37
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
ASL AT 86 DEG F,1410FT RQRD TO CLR 48FT OBSTACLE.
Investigator remarks
FLD APRX 600 FT LONG.ACFT FLT MANUAL,TKOF 951FT
Cause factors
- 64/A/20 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/29 A PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/35 A PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/17 A PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE 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 1999.
Source file
NTSB_1976_3_1999.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
Beyond the agency record
Search this event elsewhere.
Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.
Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.
Official agency record + docket.
Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.
Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).
Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.
Gold-standard aviation incident blog.
Aviation industry news search.
GA pilot forum — informed but rumor-prone.
GA pilot subreddit search.
Tail-number page — flight history (free tier limited).
AOPA Air Safety Institute search.
Mainstream press coverage. Recent events only.
Privacy-preserving news search.
External links open in a new tab. We don't ingest their content; we deep-link search queries.