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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event IAD79DKM06

1979-01-09 GREENSBORO, North Carolina, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N55034

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 8KCAB

Year of manufacture

1978 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-320 SER (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780729

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A70249

Registrant of record

OSCEOLA AEROSPORT LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N55034 Bellanca 8KCAB 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

BELLANCA 8KCAB · N55034

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MAYS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000420-78

Total time

78 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,267

Age

46

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 0068. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0068.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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