Atlas / NTSB / LAX76FUJ65

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUJ65

1976-03-25 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N86607

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELLANCA 8KCAB

Year of manufacture

1973 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING IO-320 SERIES (150 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19731221

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABE799

Registrant of record

YELLOW DECATHLON LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N86607 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 · N86607

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 8 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000138-74

Total time

1,040 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,825

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

F WING RIBS. LATERAL CTL DIFFICULT. LND IN FLD.

Investigator remarks

LEFT WING BRACE STRUT FAILED,CAUSED DISTORTION O

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/C/09 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause
88/B/AH B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 0902. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0902.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.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.